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These notes contain some remarks on the general structure of a class of physical systems called Hamiltonian, and on quantum mechanical systems in particular. A complete treatment with emphasis on technical details is found in [6]; our goal here is to point out some unifying structures and special properties of physical systems that may be of interest to this conference. Thus many of our remarks are deliberately brief and sometimes vague. Most of the results are known in the literature (cf. [18, 23]) although perhaps from a different point of view.
Presented by J. Marsden to this conference. Partially supported by NSF Grant GP-15735.
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Chernoff, P.R., Marsden, J.E. (1976). Some Remarks on Hamiltonian Systems and Quantum Mechanics. In: Harper, W.L., Hooker, C.A. (eds) Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 6c. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1438-0_3
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