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Quantum Wavefunction and Fluctuation of Classical Action

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 The classical action:  Integral (0,T) dt1 L(v(t1), x(t1),t1) may be varied to find a stationary solution which yields Newton’s second law, a standard procedure in classical mechanics. 

Is it possible to obtain quantum mechanical motion from this same classical action?

We argue that one may write the action for a relativistic/nonrelativistic particle moving at constant speed in terms of X and T i.e. v=velocity=constant=X/T. Varying with respect to X and T yields:

d/dT Action = -E and d/dX Action = p. Thus, changing X by delta X yields a change in the action of p delta X which holds for all X because of the constant velocity. If one envisions a periodic function such as exp(i Action), this behaves as exp(ipx) in terms of -id/dX. Thus, there is an intrinsic wavelength related to 1/p. This follows directly from small changes of the Action. Alternatively, one may create a differential equation such as the Klein-Gordon or Schrodinger equation from classical conservation of energy-momentum using id/dT exp(iAction) = E exp(i Action) and -id/dX exp(iAction) =  p exp(i Action). 

   We note that exp(ipx) which describes the fluctuational behaviour of the classical Action may have positive and negative values showing that fluctuations may be both positive and negative  These negative and positive fluctuations are, however, periodic so there is some systematic behaviour occurring, it seems.. We argue that exp(ipx) is statistical as its modulus is 1, indicating that a free particle has equal probability to be at any x point. For a system with a potential V(x), one may create an ensemble describing fluctuations of all possible p values i.e. W(x)=wavefunciton= Sum over p a(p) exp(ipx). The fluctuations are regular positive and negative, but there is different wavelength behaviour for each p i.e. 1/p so there is interference to yield an average fluctuation pattern i.e. the wavefunction. 

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