The Time Reversal Operator for Semigroup Evolutions

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 969-993

  Bohm, Arno ^a   Wickramasekara, Sujeewa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0031526051     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02551148     Document Type: Article

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