Partitions, Objective Indefiniteness, and Quantum Reality

Partitions, Objective Indefiniteness, and Quantum Reality

by David Ellerman
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 21/09/2024

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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.

ISBN:
9783031617867
9783031617867
Category:
History of mathematics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
21-09-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Nature Switzerland

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