Stochastic modification of Newtonian dynamics and induced potential—Application to spiral galaxies and the dark potential
- 1 July 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 62 (7), 072702
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0037265
Abstract
Using the formalism of stochastic embedding developed by Cresson and Darses [J. Math. Phys. 48, 072703 (2007)], we study how the dynamics of the classical Newton equation for a force deriving from a potential is deformed under the assumption that this equation can admit stochastic processes as solutions. We focus on two definitions of a stochastic Newton equation called differential and variational. We first prove a stochastic virial theorem that is a natural generalization of the classical case. The stochasticity modifies the virial relation by adding a potential term called the induced potential, which corresponds in quantum mechanics to the Bohm potential. Moreover, the differential stochastic Newton equation naturally provides an action functional that satisfies a stochastic Hamilton–Jacobi equation. The real part of this equation corresponds to the classical Hamilton–Jacobi equation with an extra potential term corresponding to the induced potential already observed in the stochastic virial theorem. The induced potential has an explicit form depending on the density of the stochastic process solutions of the stochastic Newton equation. It is proved that this density satisfies a nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Applying this formalism for the Kepler potential, one proves that the induced potential coincides with the ad hoc “dark potential” used to recover a flat rotation curve of spiral galaxies. We then discuss the application of the previous formalism in the context of spiral galaxies following the proposal and computations given by Da Rocha and Nottale [Chaos, Solitons Fractals, 16(4), 565–595 (2003)] where the emergence of the “dark potential” is seen as a consequence of the fractality of space in the context of the scale relativity theory.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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