The role of idealizations in the Aharonov-Bohm effect

DOI10.1007/S11229-017-1522-9MaRDI QIDQ2052655zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Earman

Publication date 26 November 2021

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1522-9

zbMATH Keywords

Aharonov-Bohm effectfoundations of quantum mechanicsidealizationsnon-localityunitarily inequivalent representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99)

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