Essential self-adjointness: implications for determinism and the classical–quantum correspondence.

It is argued that seemingly “merely technical” issues about the existence and uniqueness of self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators in quantum mechanics have interesting implications for foundations problems in classical and quantum physics. For example, pursuing these technical issues reveal...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 169; no. 1; pp. 27 - 51
Autor principal: Earman, John
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jul2009
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