Quantum and classical systems evolving under the same formal Hamiltonian
We prove that the Hilbert scheme of
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- 2203823
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- 10462915
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- Springer Science + Business Media
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- Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Volume:
- 403
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- 2
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- 0010-3616
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- p. 1005-1068
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