Unitary Inequivalence in Classical Systems
MCMP – Philosophy of Physics
English - December 31, 2014 05:39 - 29 minutes - 458 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture philosophy logic science language mathematics hannes leitgeb stephan hartmann mcmp lmu Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ben Feintzeig (UC Irvine) gives a talk at the Irvine-Munich Workshop on the Foundations of Classical and Quantum Field Theories (14 December, 2014) titled "Unitary Inequivalence in Classical Systems". Abstract: I provide an algebraic formulation of classical field theories and use this to probe our interpretation of algebraic theories more generally. I show that the problem of unitarily inequivalent representations, as discussed in Ruetsche (2011), arises in classical theories just as in quantum theories, and I argue that this gives reason to not be a Hilbert Space Conservative when interpreting algebraic theories.