The quantum Cauchy functional and space-time approach to relativistic quantum mechanics
Abstract
We construct generalized quantum Cauchy pre-measures that correspond to the analytic continuation of the transition probability of the Cauchy process to imaginary time. We show that these complex pre-measures of time translations extend to a measure on the space dual to a real Hilbert space whose support is locally compact in the uniform convergence topology and with velocities in the Hilbert space. At that the quantum Cauchy-Dirac and Cauchy-Maxwell pre-measures of time translations of electrons and photons, that correspond to the retarded Green's functions of the Dirac and Maxwell equations with no sources viewed as generalized functions on bump functions, are unitary equivalent to quantum Cauchy pre-measures Therefore these pre-measures on the space dual to a real Hilbert space are σ-additive as well, but their support on the electron (respectively, photon) trajectories are compact in the uniform convergence topology with velocities in the Hilbert space. We study the way the classical relativistic mechanics of particle comes from the quantum mechanics of the free Dirac particle.
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