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On the operator origins of classical and quantum wave functions
Research Paper Xerxes D. Arsiwalla Research Paper Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

On the operator origins of classical and quantum wave functions

Xerxes D. Arsiwalla, David Chester, Louis H. Kauffman

We investigate operator algebraic origins of the classical Koopman–von Neumann wave function $\psi_{KvN}$ as well as the quantum-mechanical one $\psi_{QM}$. In particular $\psi_{KvN}$, and $\psi_{QM}$ are both consequences of this pre-quantum formalism. What this suggests is that neither the Schrödinger equation nor the quantum wave function are fundamental structures.

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Some Quantum Mechanical Properties of theWolfram Model
Research Paper Jonathan Gorard Research Paper Jonathan Gorard

Some Quantum Mechanical Properties of theWolfram Model

Jonathan Gorard

By exploring hypergraph rules that deliberately break causal invariance, we show that the Wolfram Model’s multiway evolution functions like a quantum superposition whose geometry converges to projective Hilbert space. By proving that observers can “collapse” these histories via Knuth–Bendix completion—and deriving multiway analogues of Einstein’s equations, the path integral and the Schrödinger equation—we unify discrete spacetime, quantum mechanics and relativity within one framework.

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