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Semimodularity and the logic of quantum mechanics

James C. T. Pool

pp. 395-414

If (, Y, P, Ω) is an event-state-operation structure, then the events form an orthomodular ortholattice (, ≦, ′) and the operations, mappings from the set of states Y into Y, form a Baer *-semigroup(S Ω, ∘, *, ′). Additional axioms are adopted which yield the existence of a homomorphism θ from (S Ω , ∘, *, ′) into the Baer *-semigroup (S(ℰ), ∘, *, ′) of residuated mappings of (, ≦, ′) such that x∈S Ω maps states while θx S(ℰ) maps supports of states. If (ℰ, ≦, ′) is atomic and there exists a correspondence between atoms and pure states, then the existence of θ provides the result: (, ≦, ′) is semimodular if and only if every operation xS Ω is a pure operation (maps pure states into pure states).

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1795-4_22

Full citation:

Pool, J. C. (1975)., Semimodularity and the logic of quantum mechanics, in C. A. Hooker (ed.), The logico-algebraic approach to quantum mechanics I, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 395-414.

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