Quantum mechanics: why complex Hilbert space?

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2016.0393MaRDI QIDQ4560694zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gianni Cassinelli, Pekka Lahti

Publication date 12 December 2018

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0393

zbMATH Keywords

axiomscompound systemsstatistical dualitysymmetrytheorem of solr

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

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