Generalized Wavefunctions for Correlated Quantum Oscillators I: Basic Formalism and Classical Antecedants

Abstract

In this first of a series of four articles, it is shown how a hamiltonian quantum dynamics can be formulated based on a generalization of classical probability theory using the notion of quasi-invariant measures on the classical phase space for our description of dynamics. This is based on certain distributions rather than invariant Gibbs measures. The first quantization is by functorial analytic continuation of real probability amplitudes, mathematically effecting the introduction of correlation between otherwise independent subsystems, and whose physical consequence is the incorporation of Breit-Wigner resonances associated to Gamow vectors into our description of dynamics. The resulting quantum dynamics admits a natural field theory interpretation. This basic formalism will be employed in subsequent installments of the series.