Orthogonality Spaces Arising from Infinite-Dimensional Complex Hilbert Spaces

Abstract

AbstractThe collection of one-dimensional subspaces of an anisotropic Hermitian space is naturally endowed with an orthogonality relation and represents the typical example of what is called an orthogonality space: a set endowed with a symmetric, irreflexive binary relation. We investigate in this paper symmetry properties of orthogonality spaces. We show that two conditions concerning the existence of automorphisms of orthogonality spaces are essentially sufficient to characterise the basic model of quantum physics, the countably infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space.