The position-momentum commutator as a generalized function: resolution of the apparent discrepancy between continuous and discrete bases

DOI10.1007/S10701-023-00697-8MaRDI QIDQ6170733zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Timothy B. Boykin

Publication date 13 July 2023

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-023-00697-8

zbMATH Keywords

commutatorDirac delta functionincompletenessdiscrete basis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operations with distributions and generalized functions (46F10) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Gödel numberings and issues of incompleteness (03F40) Integral formulas of real functions of several variables (Stokes, Gauss, Green, etc.) (26B20) Special bases (entangled, mutual unbiased, etc.) (81P55) Paracontrolled distributions and alternative approaches (60L40)

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