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The Stochastic Representation of Hamiltonian Dynamics and The Quantization of Time

Mathematical Physics 2012-06-19 v2 math.MP History and Philosophy of Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Here it is shown that the unitary dynamics of a quantum object may be obtained as the conditional expectation of a counting process of object-clock interactions. Such a stochastic process arises from the quantization of the clock, and this is derived naturally from the matrix-algebra representation of the nilpotent Newton-Leibniz time differential [Belavkin]. It is observed that this condition expectation is a rigorous formulation of the Feynman Path Integral.

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@article{arxiv.1111.7043,
  title  = {The Stochastic Representation of Hamiltonian Dynamics and The Quantization of Time},
  author = {Matthew F. Brown},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.7043},
  year   = {2012}
}

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21 pages