Axiomatic Quantum Theory
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چکیده
The aim of the following lecture is to give some rough overview over most essential structures underlying all working quantum theoretical models as well as axiomatic and algebraic quantum field theory. Before specializing to ordinary Hilbert space quantum theory it will be explained why common sense reasoning cannot be applied naively and the pragmatic procedure (quantum reasoning) of getting along with this situation is briefly described. Then the more special structure underlying ordinary quantum theory will be postulated rather than derived, since
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