Mathematical formalism for probabilistic dynamical theories

✍ Scribed by Gerald Rosen

• Book ID: 103086143
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1965
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 348 KB
• Volume: 279
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(65)90275-9

✦ Synopsis

Classical statistical mechanics is formulated in terms of the characteristic function associated with a probability distribution in phase-space. Quantum statistical mechanics is formulated in terms of the hypercharacteristic function associated with an ensemble of SchrSdinger wave functions. It is shown here that both probabilistic dynamical theories appear as special cases in the broader framework of a generalized statistical mechanics.