Essential self-adjointness: implications for determinism and the classical-quantum correspondence

DOI10.1007/s11229-008-9341-7zbMath1175.81007OpenAlexW2036723068MaRDI QIDQ1036051

John Earman

Publication date: 4 November 2009

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-008-9341-7

zbMATH Keywords

determinismfoundations of quantum mechanicsclassical-quantum correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

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