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Birkhäuser Boston eBooks

Bernstein Processes Associated with a Markov Process

Ana Bela Cruzeiro, Liming Wu, Jean-Claude Zambrini

Published Jan 1, 2000• 28 citations
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Abstract

A general description of Bernstein processes, a class of diffusion processes, relevant to the probabilistic counterpart of quantum theory known as Euclidean Quantum Mechanics, is given. It is compatible with finite or infinite dimensional state spaces and singular interactions. Although the relations with statistical physics concepts (Gibbs measure, entropy,…) is stressed here, recent developments requiring Feynman’s quantum mechanical tools (action functional, path integrals, Noether’s Theorem,…) are also mentioned and suggest new research directions, especially in the geometrical structure of our approach.

DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-1372-7_4

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A new class of Gaussian (‘‘Bernstein’’) diffusion processes associated with semiclassical quantum dynamics is introduced and studied according to a new Euclidean strategy for the quantization of systems of particles in a potential (‘‘Euclidean quantum mechanics’’). All the measures known by other means, up to now, are included as particular cases of the present framework. It is shown that the theory may be regarded as a well-defined probabilistic version of Feynman’s space-time approach distinct, in particular, from the one due to Kac, and with much closer relations with classical Lagrangian dynamics. Many explicit examples are considered.
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