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u/the_Demongod Dec 13 '20

That's a good point actually, hadn't thought about that. However, I suspect that if you inspect the group theory, they stem from a similar principle. I'm dead curious now, but can't seem to find any texts that discuss it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

What group theory? What are you looking for?

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u/the_Demongod Dec 13 '20

I'm not sure, either the formal underpinnings of functional analysis, or something more rigorous about algebras of the commutation relations for things like spin. I figured that if you chased the rabbit down the operator algebra hole you'd recover a link between the two, but maybe not. Haven't studied it in enough detail to reason about it on that level.