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Towards a Quantum Theory of Geographic Fields

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Thomas Bittner. Towards a Quantum Theory of Geographic Fields. In 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 86, pp. 5:1-5:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2017.5

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This paper proposes a framework that that allows for the possibility that multiple classically incompatible states are expressed simultaneously at a given point of a geographic field. The admission of such superposition states  provides the basis for a new understanding of indeterminacy and ontological vagueness in the geographic world.

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  • Vagueness
  • Quantum Geography
  • Ontology
  • Ecoregion classification

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