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Dynamics & Predictions in the Co-Event Interpretation

Quantum Physics 2012-10-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Sorkin has introduced a new, observer independent, interpretation of quantum mechanics that can give a successful realist account of the 'quantum microworld' as well as explaining how classicality emerges at the level of observable events for a range of systems including single time 'Copenhagen measurements'. This 'co-event interpretation' presents us with a new ontology, in which a single 'co-event' is real. A new ontology necessitates a review of the dynamical & predictive mechanism of a theory, and in this paper we begin the process by exploring means of expressing the dynamical and predictive content of histories theories in terms of co-events.

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@article{arxiv.0901.3675,
  title  = {Dynamics & Predictions in the Co-Event Interpretation},
  author = {Yousef Ghazi-Tabatabai and Petros Wallden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3675},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

35 pages. Revised after refereeing

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