The logic of identity: distinguishability and indistinguishability in classical and quantum physics

DOI10.1007/s10701-014-9814-0zbMath1312.81004arXiv1405.3280OpenAlexW3102723810MaRDI QIDQ2342691

Dennis Dieks

Publication date: 29 April 2015

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3280

zbMATH Keywords

indistinguishabilityidentityGibbs paradoxidentical particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Physics (00A79)

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