Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 16 (2020), 020, 3 pages      arXiv:1906.04939      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2020.020
Contribution to the Special Issue on Algebra, Topology, and Dynamics in Interaction in honor of Dmitry Fuchs

Geometric Approach to Quantum Theory

Albert Schwarz
Department of Mathematics, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA

Received February 29, 2020, in final form March 25, 2020; Published online April 01, 2020

Abstract
We formulate quantum theory taking as a starting point the cone of states.

Key words: state; cone; quantum.

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