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The present chapter will be irrelevant1 for the mathematical deployment in succeeding chapters. We offer this material only to provide a motivation for our claim that a Dirac observable should be a self-adjoint pseudodifferential operator.
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Cordes, H.O. (2007). Why Should Observables be Pseudodifferential?. In: Precisely Predictable Dirac Observables. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 154. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5169-7_2
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