文档介绍：THE SYMPLECTIC AND METAPLECTIC
GROUPS IN QUANTUM MECHANICS AND
THE BOHM INTERPRETATION
Melvin Brown
Theoretical Physics Research Unit
Birkbeck College
London University
THE SYMPLECTIC AND METAPLECTIC GROUPS IN
QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THE BOHM
INTERPRETATION
Melvin Richard Brown
Theoretical Physics Research Unit
Birkbeck College, University of London
c Copyright by Melvin Richard Brown, 2006
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MELVIN BROWN
December 2006
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Brown, Melvin Richard
The Symplectic and Metaplectic Groups in Quantum Mechanics
and the Bohm Interpretation / Melvin Richard Brown
Includes bibliographic references and index.
1. Symplectic and metaplectic groups 2. Bohm interpretation 3.
Quantum mechanics I. Title
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Preface
The interpretation of quantum mechanics remains a challenge to many who use it, notwith-
standing its ess as a description of the physical world, especially on atomic scales. Soon
after the development of quantum mechanics, Dirac (1930), in his book The Principles of
Quantum Mechanics, observed that the fundamental laws of nature govern the world, as
it