Liouville’s Theorem

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-47
1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 161-189
Author(s):  
C. SYROS

The essentials of quantum mechanics are derived from Liouville's theorem in statistical mechanics. An elementary solution, g, of Liouville's equation helps to construct a differentiable N-particle distribution function (DF), F(g), satisfying the same equation. Reality and additivity of F(g): (i) quantize the time variable; (ii) quantize the energy variable; (iii) quantize the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution; (iv) make F(g) observable through time-elimination; (v) produce the Planck constant; (vi) yield the black-body radiation spectrum; (vii) support chronotopology introduced axiomatically; (viii) the Schrödinger and the Klein–Gordon equations follow. Hence, quantum theory appears as a corollary of Liouville's theorem. An unknown connection is found allowing the better understanding of space-times and of these theories.


2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-408
Author(s):  
Richard Froese

AbstractWe present a very short proof of Liouville's theorem for solutions to a non-uniformly elliptic radially symmetric equation. The proof uses the Ricatti equation satisfied by the Dirichlet to Neumann map.


1986 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
A. Lenard

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