Quantum Dynamics from Lax Pair Theory: A Reconstruction from Spectrum Preservation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19664v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:20:45 GMT
• Title: Quantum Dynamics from Lax Pair Theory: A Reconstruction from Spectrum Preservation
• Abstract summary: We reconstruct unitary quantum dynamics from a minimal axiomatic foundation built on Hilbert-space observables and isospectral evolution.<n>We show that this assumption is already sufficient to force the Lax form of quantum dynamics.<n>The Heisenberg equation, the time-dependent and time-independent Schrdinger equations, conservation laws, and good quantum numbers then follow as theorems rather than postulates.
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• Abstract: We reconstruct unitary quantum dynamics from a minimal axiomatic foundation built on Hilbert-space observables and isospectral evolution. The only dynamical assumption is that physical time evolution is a continuous one-parameter flow of Hermitian observables that preserves their spectra, i.e. the possible outcomes of measurement. We show that this assumption is already sufficient to force the Lax form of quantum dynamics. The Heisenberg equation, the time-dependent and time-independent Schrödinger equations, conservation laws, and good quantum numbers then follow as theorems rather than postulates. In this formulation, Lax pair theory supplies the missing dynamical bridge between the measurement structure of a Hilbert space and standard quantum evolution: the Hamiltonian is not assumed, but emerges as the generator required for an isospectral observable flow.

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