Dirac - von Neumann axioms in the setting of Continuous Model Theory
Logic
2025-12-23 v2 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We recast the well-known axiom system of quantum mechanics used by physicists (the Dirac calculus) in the language of Continuous Logic. For the basic version of the axiomatic system we prove that along with the canonical continuous model the axioms have approximate finite models of large sizes, in fact the continuous model is isomorphic to an ultraproduct of finite models. We analyse the continuous logic quantifier corresponding to Dirac integration and show that in finite context it has two versions, local and global, which coincide on Gaussian wave-functions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.01900,
title = {Dirac - von Neumann axioms in the setting of Continuous Model Theory},
author = {Boris Zilber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.01900},
year = {2025}
}