On the Space-Time and State-Space Geometries of Random Processes in Quantum Mechanics

Diego Lucio Rapoport

Published Mar 1, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

We present the space-time and Hilbert-state space quantum geometries and their associated Brownian motions. We discuss the problem of the reduction of the wave function associated to these geometries and their Brownian motions.

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