Properties of Consistent Histories
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-07-17 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We describe some properties of consistent sets of histories in the Gell-Mann--Hartle formalism, and give an example to illustrate that one cannot recover the standard predictions, retrodictions and inferences of quasiclassical physics using the criterion of consistency alone.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9409037,
title = {Properties of Consistent Histories},
author = {Fay Dowker and Adrian Kent},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9409037},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
8 pages, TeX with Harvmac. Replaced with published version which contains fewer technical details and more discussion of physical implications. Title Corrected