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(1) In order to characterize the kind of problem which I wish to consider, I first briefly discuss a situation which is known from classical mechanics. The state of a certain material system at an epoch t is characterized by the values of the canonical variables q and p, the number of which may be reduced, for the sake of brevity and simplicity, to one of each type.
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J. von Neumann, Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik, Berlin 1932, pp. 130–134; cf. P. Jordan, Quantenlogik und das kommutative Gesetz, in: L. Henkin, P. Suppes, A. Tarski (ed.), The Axiomatic Method, Amsterdam (Studies in Logic) 1959, pp. 365–375.
H. Weyl, Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1931, pp. 220–222; J. von Neumann, op. cit., pp. 144, 150; W. Heisenberg, Die physikalischen Prinzipien der Quantentheorie, Leipzig 1930, pp. 101 ff.
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Beth, E.W. (1961). Semantics of Physical Theories. In: The Concept and the Role of the Model in Mathematics and Natural and Social Sciences. Synthese Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3667-2_3
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