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A quantum measure of the multiverse

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

It has been recently suggested that probabilities of different events in the multiverse are given by the frequencies at which these events are encountered along the worldline of a geodesic observer (the "watcher"). Here I discuss an extension of this probability measure to quantum theory. The proposed extension is gauge-invariant, as is the classical version of this measure. Observations of the watcher are described by a reduced density matrix, and the frequencies of events can be found using the decoherent histories formalism of Quantum Mechanics (adapted to open systems). The quantum watcher measure makes predictions in agreement with the standard Born rule of QM.

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@article{arxiv.1312.0682,
  title  = {A quantum measure of the multiverse},
  author = {Alexander Vilenkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0682},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages, no figures; references added in v.2

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