The puzzle of canonical transformations in early quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2003.07.001zbMath1222.81014MaRDI QIDQ640071

Jan Lacki

Publication date: 17 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/j.shpsb.2003.07.001

zbMATH Keywords

quantization; quantum mechanics; action-angle variables; canonical transformations; transformation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

81-03: History of quantum theory

81P05: General and philosophical questions in quantum theory

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