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Baer *-semigroups and the logic of quantum mechanics

James C. T. Pool

pp. 365-394

The theory of orthomodular ortholattices provides mathematical constructs utilized in the quantum logic approach to the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. There exists a remarkable connection between the mathematical theories of orthomodular ortholattices and Baer *-semigroups; therefore, the question arises whether there exists a phenomenologically interpretable role for Baer *-semigroups in the context of the quantum logic approach. Arguments, involving the quantum theory of measurements, yield the result that the theory of Baer *-semigroups provides the mathematical constructs for the discussion of "operations' and conditional probabilities.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1795-4_21

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Pool, J. C. (1975)., Baer *-semigroups and the logic of quantum mechanics, in C. A. Hooker (ed.), The logico-algebraic approach to quantum mechanics I, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 365-394.

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