Field theory and the future of stochastic mechanics
Field theory and the future of stochastic mechanics
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场论和随机力学的未来
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1986
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通讯作者:
Edward Nelson
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Edward Nelson
Some severe difficulties with stochastic mechanics as a physical theory are pointed out, and it is suggested that these difficulties may be overcome by studying random fields on space-time rather than the diffusion of particle systems in configuration space. A discussion of Bell's theorem leads to the conclusion that it is no obstacle to the description of quantum phenomena by classical random fields. A new quantization method related to stochastic mechanics is developed. The construction of quantum fields from random fields without analytic continuation in time is carried out in the case of the free scalar field. Several open problems concerning random fields are described, in a program relating them to the description of quantum phenomena.