Partitions, Objective Indefiniteness, and Quantum Reality
The Objective Indefiniteness Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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Beschreibung
This book presents a new ‘partitional' approach to understanding or interpreting the math of standard quantum mechanics (QM). The thesis is that the mathematics (not the physics) of QM is the Hilbert space version of the math of partitions on a set and, conversely, the math of partitions is a skeletonized set level version of the math of QM. Since at the set level, partitions are the mathematical tool to represent distinctions and indistinctions (or definiteness and indefiniteness), this approach shows how to interpret the key non-classical QM notion of superposition in terms of (objective) indefiniteness between definite alternatives (as opposed to seeing it as the sum of ‘waves'). Thus, the book develops a new mathematical, or indeed, logical, approach to the century-old problem of interpreting quantum mechanics, ensure it is of interest to philosophers of science as well as mathematicians and physicists.
Develops a new mathematical, or indeed, logical, approach to the century-old problem of interpreting quantum mechanics Sticks to the finite-dimensional case of standard quantum mechanics so the required mathematics is quite simple Explains how the logical notion of a set partition interprets the key non-classical concept of a superposition in QM
Autor*in
David Ellerman
Themen in »Partitions, Objective Indefiniteness, and Quantum Reality«
Partitions Objective Indefiniteness Equivalence Relations Mathematics of QM Distinguishability versus Indistinguishability Feynman's Rules for Computing Amplitudes Standard Von-Neumann/Dirac QM Quantum Superposition