From Heisenberg and Schrödinger to the P vs. NP Problem

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07502v2
• Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:56:35 GMT
• Title: From Heisenberg and Schrödinger to the P vs. NP Problem
• Authors: Galina Weinstein,
• Abstract summary: The essay reconstructs the mathematical history of quantum mechanics through the original derivations of Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Pascual Jordan, Paul Dirac Erwin Schrdinger, Paul Ehrenfest, and Wolfgang Pauli.<n>By juxtaposing Heisenberg's algorithmic formalism with Schrdinger's representational one, it argues that their divergence reveals a structural feature of scientific reasoning itself.
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• Abstract: This essay offers an epistemological reinterpretation of the foundational divide between matrix mechanics and wave mechanics. Though formally equivalent, the two theories embody distinct modes of knowing: procedural construction and recognitional verification. These epistemic architectures anticipate, in philosophical form, the logical asymmetry expressed by the P versus NP problem in computational complexity. Here, the contrast between efficient generation and efficient recognition is treated not as a mathematical taxonomy but as a framework for understanding how knowledge is produced and validated across physics, computation, and cognition. The essay reconstructs the mathematical history of quantum mechanics through the original derivations of Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Pascual Jordan, Paul Dirac, Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Ehrenfest, and Wolfgang Pauli, culminating in John von Neumann's unification of both approaches within the formalism of Hilbert space. By juxtaposing Heisenberg's algorithmic formalism with Schrödinger's representational one, it argues that their divergence reveals a structural feature of scientific reasoning itself-the enduring tension between what can be procedurally constructed and what can only be recognized.

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