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Probability and Combinatorics

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - 3:00pm

Alex Moll

Northeastern

Location

Temple University

Wachman Hall 617

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The Born Rule (1926) formalized in von Neumann's spectral theorem (1932) gives a precise definition of the random outcomes of quantum measurements as random variables from the spectral theory of non-random matrices. In [M. 2017], the Born rule provided a way to derive limit shapes and global fractional Gaussian field fluctuations for a large class of point processes from the first principles of geometric quantization and semi-classical analysis of coherent states. Rather than take a point process as a starting point, these point process are realized as auxiliary objects in an analysis that starts instead from a classical Hamiltonian system with possibly infinitely-many degrees of freedom that is not necessarily Liouville integrable. In this talk, we present these results with a focus on the case of one degree of freedom, where the core ideas in the arguments are faithfully represented.