Hilbert Space Representations of Decoherence Functionals and Quantum Measures

Details Hilbert Space Representations of Decoherence Functionals and Quantum Measures Hilbert Space Representations of Decoherence Functionals and Quantum Measures

2010-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/1011.1694v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

25 pages

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We show that any decoherence functional $D$ can be represented by a spanning vector-valued measure on a complex Hilbert space. Moreover, this representation is unique up to an isomorphism when the system is finite. We consider the natural map $U$ from the history Hilbert space $K$ to the standard Hilbert space $H$ of the usual quantum formulation. We show that $U$ is an isomorphism from $K$ onto a closed subspace of $H$ and that $U$ is an isomorphism from $K$ onto $H$ if and only if the representation is spanning. We then apply this work to show that a quantum measure has a Hilbert space representation if and only if it is strongly positive. We also discuss classical decoherence functionals, operator-valued measures and quantum operator measures.

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