THE PROBLEM OF MOMENTS IN THE PHASE-SPACE FORMULATION OF QUANTUM-MECHANICS

abstract

• Long ago, Moyal [Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 45, 99 (1949)] formulated a moment problem in the context of the Wigner-Weyl phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics. The problem amounts to giving necessary and sufficient conditions for a sequence of numbers to be moments of a Wigner function. In this paper, that problem is solved, and so is a truncated version of it. 1987 American Institute of Physics.

authors

• Narcowich, Francis

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• NARCOWICH, F. J.

citation count

• 15

complete list of authors

• NARCOWICH, FJ

publication date

• December 1987

publisher

• AIP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Mathematical Physics  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1063/1.527687

start page

• 2873

end page

• 2882

volume

• 28

issue

• 12

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.527687