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A Correspondence Principle for Momentum Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. E. Marsden*
Affiliation:
Princeton University
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The purpose of this note is to give a precise formulation of the correspondence principle between classical and quantum mechanics, for the case of momentum operators. (See e. g. I. Segal, Journ. Math. Phys. (1960), 475).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1967

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