From deterministic dynamics to probabilistic descriptions
AUTOR(ES)
Misra, B.
RESUMO
The present work is devoted to the following question: What is the relationship between the deterministic laws of dynamics and probabilistic description of physical processes? It is generally accepted that probabilistic processes can arise from deterministic dynamics only through a process of “coarse graining” or “contraction of description” that inevitably involves a loss of information. In this work we present an alternative point of view toward the relationship between deterministic dynamics and probabilistic descriptions. Speaking in general terms, we demonstrate the possibility of obtaining (stochastic) Markov processes from deterministic dynamics simply through a “change of representation” that involves no loss of information provided the dynamical system under consideration has a suitably high degree of instability of motion. The fundamental implications of this finding for statistical mechanics and other areas of physics are discussed. From a mathematical point of view, the theory we present is a theory of invertible, positivity-preserving, and necessarily nonunitary similarity transformations that convert the unitary groups associated with deterministic dynamics to contraction semigroups associated with stochastic Markov processes. We explicitly construct such similarity transformations for the so-called Bernoulli systems. This construction illustrates also the construction of the so-called Lyapounov variables and the operator of “internal time,” which play an important role in our approach to the problem of irreversibility. The theory we present can also be viewed as a theory of entropy-increasing evolutions and their relationship to deterministic dynamics.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=383881Documentos Relacionados
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