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Generalizing Elitzur-Vaidman interaction free measurements
Adonai S. Sant'Anna, Otavio Bueno
In the early 1990's A. Elitzur and L. Vaidman proposed an interaction free measurement (IFM) that allows researchers to find infinitely fragile objects without destroying them. But…
Individuality as an illusion
Adonai S. Sant'Anna
Elementary particles in quantum mechanics (QM) are indistinguishable when sharing the same intrinsic properties and the same quantum state. So, we can consider quantum particles as…
Finite enumerable but undecidable collections
Adonai S. Sant'Anna
It is well known that in Zermelo-Fraenkel (ZF) set theory any finite set is decidable. In this paper we discuss an extension of ZF where this result is no longer valid. Such an ext…
Entropy is complexity
Adonai S. Sant'Anna
In a recent paper Andrei N. Soklakov explained the foundations of the Lagrangian formulation of classical particle mechanics by means of Kolmogorov complexity. In the present paper…
A critical study on the concept of identity in Zermelo-Fraenkel-like axioms
Aurelio Sartorelli, Decio Krause, Adonai S. Sant'Anna
According to Cantor, a set is a collection into a whole of defined and separate (we shall say distinct) objects. So, a natural question is ``How to treat as `sets' collections of i…
Time is dispensable in thermodynamics
Newton C. A. da Costa, Adonai S. Sant'Anna
We use Padoa's principle of independence of primitive symbols in axiomatic systems in order to show that time is dispensable in continuum thermodynamics, according to the axiomatic…