2012/03/16 by Gabriele Carcassi, Carcassi, Gabriele
Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1203.3726
2 pages, no figures
arxiv created 2012/03/16 · arxiv updated 2012/03/19
The state space of a homogeneous body is derived under two different assumptions: infinitesimal reducibility and irreducibility. The first assumption leads to a real vector space, used in classical mechanics, while the second one leads to a complex vector space, used in quantum mechanics.