Schroedinger equation for joint bidirectional motion in time

The conventional, time-dependent Schroedinger equation describes only unidirectional time evolution of the state of a physical system, i.e., forward or, less commonly, backward. This paper proposes a generalized quantum dynamics for the description of joint, and interactive, forward and backward time evolution within a physical system. [...] Three applications are studied: (1) a formal theory of collisions in terms of perturbation theory; (2) a relativistically invariant quantum field theory for a system that kinematically comprises the direct sum of two quantized real scalar fields, such that one field evolves forward and the other backward in time, and such that there is dynamical coupling between the subfields; (3) an argument that in the latter field theory, the dynamics predicts that in a range of values of the coupling constants, the expectation value of the vacuum energy of the universe is forced to be zero to high accuracy. [...]Comment: 30 pages, no figures. Related material is in quant-ph/0404012. Differs from published version by a few added remarks on the possibility of a large-scale-average negative energy density in spac

Schur analysis in the quaternionic setting: The fueter regular and the slice regular case

This chapter is a survey on recent developments in quaternionic Schur analysis. The first part is based on functions which are slice hyperholomorphic in the unit ball of the quaternions, and have modulus bounded by 1. These functions, which by analogy to the complex case are called Schur multipliers, are shown to be (as in the complex case) the source of a wide range of problems of general interest. They also suggest new problems in quaternionic operator theory, especially in the setting of indefinite inner product spaces. This chapter gives an overview on rational functions and their realizations, on the Hardy space of the unit ball, on the half-space of quaternions with positive real part, and on Schur multipliers, also discussing related results. For the purpose of comparison this chapter presents also another approach to Schur analysis in the quaternionic setting, in the framework of Fueter series. To ease the presentation most of the chapter is written for the scalar case, but the reader should be aware that the appropriate setting is often that of vector-valued functions