Unitary Inequivalence in Classical Systems - a podcast by MCMP Team

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.

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