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Applications of the Characteristic Theory to the Madelung-de Broglie-Bohm System of Partial Differential Equations: The Guiding Equation as the Characteristic Velocity

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 نشر من قبل Javier Gonzalez
 تاريخ النشر 2007
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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First, we use the theory of characteristics of first order partial differential equations to derive the guiding equation directly from the Quantum Evolution Equation (QEE). After obtaining the general result, we apply it to a set of evolution equations (Schroedinger, Pauli, Klein-Gordon, Dirac) to show how the guiding equation is, actually, the characteristic velocity of the corresponding matter field equations.

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