Must a Hamiltonian be Hermitian?

DOI10.1119/1.1574043zbMath1219.81125arXivhep-th/0303005OpenAlexW3105448191WikidataQ62272474 ScholiaQ62272474MaRDI QIDQ3088666

Dorje C. Brody, Hugh F. Jones, Carl M. Bender

Publication date: 19 August 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0303005

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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