Ex-library, "University Of Otago Departmental Collection." Library stamps and markings. Rubbing along edges of paper spine. Rubbing to corners of wrappers. Some creasing to wrappers. ; vi, 355 pages + advertisements. Card wrappers. Page dimensions: 242mm x 157mm. Lecture Notes In Physics 29. ; 8vo.

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Title: Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics And Ordered Linear Spaces
Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Publication Date: 1974
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3540067256
ISBN 13: 9783540067252
Binding: Softcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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Orderings of vector spaces.- Duality of cones in locally convex spaces.- Order unit and base norm spaces.- Minimal decompositions in base normed spaces.- Simplex spaces.- Representation of Banach lattices.- Order ideals in ordered Banach spaces.- Order bounded operators and central measures.- Ordered normed tensor products.- Positive linear maps of Cu*-algebras.- Axiomatics of preparing and measuring procedures.- The structure of ordered Banach spaces in axiomatic quantum mechanics.- Measuring and preparing processes.- Models of the measuring process and of macro-theories.- The centre of a physical system.- Operations and effects in the Hilbert space formulation of quantum theory.- The empirical logic approach to the physical sciences.- The structure of quantum Suggestions for a unified physics.- Irreversibility and dynamical maps of statistical operators.- The inner orthogonality of convex sets in axiomatic quantum mechanics.- Reduced dynamics in quantum mechanics.- The quantum mechanical Hilbert space formalism and the quantum mechanical probability space of the outcomes of measurements.- Mean ergodic semigroups and invariant ideals in ordered Banach spaces.- The representation of classical systems in quantum mechanics.- Extended Hilbert space formulation of Dirac's bra and ket formalism and its applications to abstract stationary scattering theory.- Projections on orthomodular lattices.- The Šilov boundary of a convex cone.- A Radon-nikodym-theorem for operators with an application to spectral theory.

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