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Quantum mechanics: last stop for reductionism

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

Abstract

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.

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