On some peculiarities of quantum mechanics

General regularities related toLagrangian andHamiltonian equations are revealed. Probability distributions for functions ofHamiltonian random variables are considered. It is shown that all probability distributions of this kind are fully determined by the probability distributions for the random variables satisfying the corresponding Lagrangian equations. Some formulas related tocanonically conjugate operators are given. The similarity of these formulas to those related to Hamiltonian random variables is demonstrated. The quantum approach to the treatment of Hamiltonian random variables is discussed, and the origin of some peculiarities related to this approach is elucidated; it is explained, in particular, why it is impossible to form the joint probability density for canonically conjugate random variables when using this approach. The peculiarities revealed prove to be common for any objects possessing Hamiltonian random variables, irrespective of the nature of the objects, and coincide, therefore, with those in quantum mechanics. The existence of joint probability distributions for canonically conjugate random variables in the general case is demonstrated through the calculation of the corresponding joint mathematical expectations in an illustrative example. This proves, in particular, that joint probability distributions for canonically conjugate coordinates and momenta exist indeed in the case of mechanical microsystems. The results obtained prove once again that the pecularities of quantum mechanics are not related to the specificity of the measurements of physical quantities for microsystems.     

STOCHASTIC PERTURBATION APPROACH TO ENGINEERING STRUCTURE VIBRATIONS BY THE FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD

The main idea of the paper is to introduce the second order perturbation second probabilistic moment analysis in the context of the finite difference method (FDM) modelling of vibrations. The approach can be successfully applied in all those engineering analyses where FDM modelling of engineering structures vibrations is still useful and, at the same time, some structural parameters are random variables or fields. The general advantage of the stochastic finite difference method (SFDM) proposed is the relatively easy extension of the existing deterministic results of the classical elastodynamics on the random or stochastic case. However, similarly to stochastic boundary or finite element methods, the approach proposed has its limitations on the second order random uncertainties measures of input random variables.     

Truncated Hamiltonian versus surface perturbation in nonlinear wave theories

Two fundamentally different theories on nonlinear surface waves are scrutinized. The first is a Stokes-like perturbation about a mean equilibrium level. The second is a perturbation about the surface itself by truncation of the Hamiltonian which relates two canonical variables: the velocity potential and the surface elevation. Both perturbation approaches are carefully generalized to include effects from both surface tension and fluid depth. It is found that either the velocity potential or the elevation can be equivalent in the approaches considered but not both variables simultaneously. The resonant condition determines which canonical variable will be equivalent. A clarification is also provided regarding past comparisons between these theories in terms of wave action equations. This study resolves a long-standing controversy as to whether these two approaches are equivalent.     

Microdynamics and nonlinear stochastic processes of gross variables

Starting from classical Hamiltonian mechanics, we derive for the dynamics of gross variables in nonequilibrium systems exact nonlinear generalized Fokker-Planck and Langevin equations in which the effect of the initial preparation is taken into account explicitly. This latter concept allows for the construction of a uniquely determined projection operator. The memory functions occurring in the Langevin equations are related to the random forces by a fluctuation-dissipation theorem of the second kind. We discuss the connection with the generalized Fokker-Planck equation. The known results for equilibrium fluctuations are recovered as a special case.Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant CHE78-21460.     

Hamiltonian systems with indefinite kinetic energy

Some interesting features of a class of two-dimensional Hamiltonians with indefinite kinetic energy are considered. It is shown that such Hamiltonians cannot be reduced, in general, to an equivalent dynamical Hamiltonian with positive definite kinetic energy quadratic in velocities. Complex nonlinear evolution equations like the K-dV, the MK-dV and the sine-Gordon equations possess such Hamiltonians. The case of complex K-dV equation has been considered in detail to demonstrate the generic features. The two-dimensional real systems obtained by analytic continuation to complex plane of one-dimensional dynamical systems are also discussed. The evolution equations for nonlinear, amplitude-modulated Langmuir waves as well as circularly polarized electromagnetic waves in plasmas, are considered as illustrative examples.     

General Nth-order differential spectral problem: General structure of the integrable equations,nonuniqueness of recursion operator and gauge invariance

The general scalar Gelfand-Dikij-Zakharov-Shabat spectral problem of arbitrary order is considered within the framework of the AKNS method. The general form of the integrable equations is found. Uncertainties which appear in the construction of recursion operator and transformation properties of the integrable equations under the gauge transformations are considered. The manifestly gauge-invariant formulation of the integrable equations is given. It is shown that the intergrable equations under consideration are Hamiltonian ones with respect to the infinite family of Hamiltonian structures.     

Partially Ordered Models

We provide a formal definition and study the basic properties of partially ordered random fields (PORF). These systems were proposed to model textures in image processing and to represent independence relations between random variables in statistics (in the latter case they are known as Bayesian networks). Our random fields are a generalization of probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) and their theory has features intermediate between that of discrete-time processes and the theory of statistical mechanical lattice fields. Its proper definition is based on the notion of partially ordered specification (POS), in close analogy to the theory of Gibbs measures. This paper contains two types of results. First, we present the basic elements of the general theory of PORFs: basic geometrical issues, definition in terms of conditional probability kernels, extremal decomposition, extremality and triviality, reconstruction starting from single-site kernels, relations between POM and Gibbs fields. Second, we prove three uniqueness criteria that correspond to the criteria known as uniform boundedness, Dobrushin uniqueness and disagreement percolation in the theory of Gibbs measures.     

Identification of Bayesian posteriors for coefficients of chaos expansions

This article is concerned with the identification of probabilistic characterizations of random variables and fields from experimental data. The data used for the identification consist of measurements of several realizations of the uncertain quantities that must be characterized. The random variables and fields are approximated by a polynomial chaos expansion, and the coefficients of this expansion are viewed as unknown parameters to be identified. It is shown how the Bayesian paradigm can be applied to formulate and solve the inverse problem. The estimated polynomial chaos coefficients are hereby themselves characterized as random variables whose probability density function is the Bayesian posterior. This allows to quantify the impact of missing experimental information on the accuracy of the identified coefficients, as well as on subsequent predictions. An illustration in stochastic aeroelastic stability analysis is provided to demonstrate the proposed methodology.     

On the theories of the interacting perturbations of the Reissner-Nordström black hole

A complete account of the Hamiltonian approach to the coupled perturbations of the Reissner-Nordström black hole, initiated by Moncrief, is given. All Hamiltonian equations are expressed explicitly in suitable forms; the metric and electromagnetic field perturbations are found in terms of Moncrief's gauge invariant canonical variables in the Regge-Wheeler gauge. The basic (both tetrad and coordinate) gauge invariant scalars occurring in the perturbation studies based on the Newman-Penrose formalism are then related to Moncrief's variables. The strikingly simple relations obtained enable us to show that the fundamental pair of decoupled equations, derived recently within the Newman-Penrose formalism by Chandrasekhar, can be cast into gauge invariant form, and that it can be obtained from Moncrief's formalism.It is demonstrated how the fundamental equations, supplemented by another combination of the Newman — Penrose equations, generalize the Bardeen-Press equations for uncoupled electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations of the Schwarzschild black hole.The odd and the even parityl=1 perturbations are also considered in detail. In the Appendix the relations to Zerilli's work on coupled perturbations of the Reissner-Nordström black hole are given.     

Effective Action for Scalar Fields in Two-Dimensional Gravity

We consider a general two-dimensional gravity model minimally or nonminimally coupled to a scalar field. The canonical form of the model is elucidated, and a general solution of the equations of motion in the massless case is reviewed. In the presence of a scalar field all geometric fields (zweibein and Lorentz connection) are excluded from the model by solving exactly their Hamiltonian equations of motion. In this way the effective equations of motion and the corresponding effective action for a scalar field are obtained. It is written in a Minkowskian space-time and does not include any geometric variables. The effective action arises as a boundary term and is nontrivial both for open and closed universes. The reason is that unphysical degrees of freedom cannot be compactly supported because they must satisfy the constraint equation. As an example we consider spherically reduced gravity minimally coupled to a massless scalar field. The effective action is used to reproduce the Fisher and Roberts solutions.     

Inverse problem of the variational calculus for higher KdV equations

It is shown that the usual Hamilton's variational principle supplemented by the methodology of the integer-programming problem can be used to construct expressions for the Lagrangian densities of higher KdV fields. This is demonstrated with special emphasis on the second and third members of the hierarchy. However, the method is general enough for applications to equations of any order. The expressions for Lagrangian densities are used to calculate results for Hamiltonian densities that characterize Zakharov-Faddeev-Gardner equation. Received 27 January 2002 / Received in final form 6 May 2002 Published online 24 September 2002     

On Three Magnetic Relativistic Schr?dinger Operators and Imaginary-Time Path Integrals

Three magnetic relativistic Schr?dinger operators are considered corresponding to the classical relativistic Hamiltonian symbol with magnetic vector and electric scalar potentials. We discuss their difference in general and their coincidence in the case of constant magnetic fields, as well as whether they are covariant under gauge transformation. Then results are surveyed on path integral representations for their respective imaginary-time relativistic Schr?dinger equations, i.e. heat equations, by means of the probability path space measure coming from the Lévy process concerned.     

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with Real Spectrum in Quantum Mechanics

Examples are given of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian operators which have a real spectrum. Some of the investigated operators are expressed in terms of the generators of the Weyl–Heisenberg algebra. It is argued that the existence of an involutive operator [^(J)]\hat J which renders the Hamiltonian [^(J)]\hat J-Hermitian leads to the unambiguous definition of an associated positive definite norm allowing for the standard probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics. Non-Hermitian extensions of the Poeschl–Teller Hamiltonian are also considered. Hermitian counterparts obtained by similarity transformations are constructed.     

On the Bilinear Equations for Fredholm Determinants Appearing in Random Matrices

Abstract

It is shown how the bilinear differential equations satisfied by Fredholm determinants of integral operators appearing as spectral distribution functions for random matrices may be deduced from the associated systems of nonautonomous Hamiltonian equations satisfied by auxiliary canonical phase space variables introduced by Tracy and Widom. The essential step is to recast the latter as isomonodromic deformation equations for families of rational covariant derivative operators on the Riemann sphere and interpret the Fredholm determinants as isomonodromic τ -functions.     

Separation of variables in the Klein-Gordon equations. II

Two kinds of external nonstationary electromagnetic fields are found containing arbitrary functions which admit of total separation of variables in the Klein-Gordon equations by using two differential symmetry operators and one second order operator. Curvilinear coordinates are presented in which the variables are divided, and equations are written down in the separated variables.Translated from Izvestiya VUZ, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 45–52, December, 1973.     

On the theory of recursion operator

The general structure and properties of recursion operators for Hamiltonian systems with a finite number and with a continuum of degrees of freedom are considered. Weak and strong recursion operators are introduced. The conditions which determine weak and strong recursion operators are found.In the theory of nonlinear waves a method for the calculation of the recursion operator, which is based on the use of expansion into a power series over the fields and the momentum representation, is proposed. Within the framework of this method a recursion operator is easily calculated via the Hamiltonian of a given equation. It is shown that only the one-dimensional nonlinear evolution equations can posses a regular recursion operator. In particular, the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation has no regular recursion operator.     

Separation of variables in the stationary Schrödinger equation

The problem of separation of variables in the stationary Schrödinger equation is considered for a charge moving in an external electromagnetic field. On the basis of the definition formulated, necessary and sufficient conditions are found for separation of variables in equations of elliptic type to which the stationary Schrödinger equation belongs. Application of general theorems made it possible to enumerate all types of electromagnetic fields and systems of coordinates in which separation of variables in the stationary Schrödinger equation is possible. Systems of ordinary differential equations which the wave function in the separated variables satisfies are written down to explicit form.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 45–50, August, 1972.     

Concerning the full integrability of hamiltonian equations of charged particle motion in a weakly inhomogeneous magnetic field

The Hamiltonian of a charged particle in a weakly inhomogeneous magnetic field is calculated up to terms on the order of a small parameter. Fast phase-averaged equations of motion are derived. It is shown that these equations are intergrable in quadratures. Thus, the problem of particle motion in a weakly inhomogeneous field is solved in the first-order approximation. To calculate the Hamiltonian, the coordinates related to the field are used. Then, the canonical change of variables is done with the help of the generating function; in the case of a homogeneous field, this results in the action-angle variables. Such a procedure has been already used in [1]. However, the small parameter was not explicitly introduced and final expressions for small and large parts of the Hamiltonian were not calculated in that paper. It is shown that the small part of the Hamiltonian is a trigonometric polynomial of the fast phase (this can be important when analyzing the influence of additional perturbations). Besides, the averaged equations appear to be treatable and can be integrated in quadratures.