Hidden variables, quasi-sets, and elementary particles

Abstract

We have recently showed that it is possible to deal with collections of indistinguishable elementary particles (in the context of quantum mechanics) in a set-theoretical framework by using hidden variables, in a sense. In the present paper we use such a formalism as a model for quasi-set theory. Quasi-set theory, based on Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, was developed for dealing with collections of indistinguishable but, in a sense, not identical objects.