Chaos out of order: quantum mechanics, the correspondence principle and chaos

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(96)00025-1zbMath1222.81181OpenAlexW1969913089MaRDI QIDQ639796

John Earman, Gordon Belot

Publication date: 11 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s1355-2198(96)00025-1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Quantum chaos (81Q50) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Physics (00A79)

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