A New Argument for the Nomological Interpretation of the Wave Function: The Galilean Group and the Classical Limit of Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics

DOI10.1080/02698595.2018.1424759zbMath1409.81007OpenAlexW2762287264MaRDI QIDQ4626930

Valia Allori

Publication date: 7 March 2019

Published in: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14023/1/ISPS-new%20argument%20for%20nomological%20wf-galilei.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Physics (00A79)

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