arXiv:quant-ph/0003016

Classical and quantum mechanics on information spaces with applications to cognitive, psychological, social and anomalous phenomena

Andrei Yu. Khrennikov

Published Mar 4, 2000• 18 citations

Abstract

We use the system of p-adic numbers for the description of information processes. Basic objects of our models are so called transformers of information, basic processes are information processes, the statistics are information statistics (thus we present a model of information reality). The classical and quantum mechanical formalisms on information p-adic spaces are developed. It seems that classical and quantum mechanical models on p-adic information spaces can be applied for the investigation of flows of information in cognitive and social systems, since a p-adic metric gives quite natural description of the ability to form associations.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0003016

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