In this paper a formulation of classical mechanics is given with the help of linear operators in HILBERT space, which is different from the formalism of v. NEUMANN and KOOPMAN, i.e. the observables are represented by selfadjoint operators instead of real functions. It is shown that classical mechani
The classical–statistical limit of quantum mechanics
✍ Scribed by Mario Castagnino
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Volume
- 335
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-4371
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