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- Title
On Classical and Quantum Objectivity.
- Authors
Catren, Gabriel
- Abstract
We propose a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between observables and operators in mechanics. To do so, we introduce a postulate that establishes a correspondence between the objective properties permitting to identify physical states and the symmetry transformations that modify their gauge dependant properties. We show that the uncertainty principle results from a faithful—or equivariant—realization of this correspondence. It is a consequence of the proposed postulate that the quantum notion of objective physical states is not incomplete, but rather that the classical notion is overdetermined.
- Subjects
MECHANICS (Physics); QUANTUM theory; NOTIONAL functional syllabi; PROPERTIES of matter; SYMMETRY (Physics); QUANTUM statistics
- Publication
Foundations of Physics, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 5, p470
- ISSN
0015-9018
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10701-008-9216-2