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Reality from maximizing overlap in the future-included theories

Quantum Physics 2017-10-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the future-included complex and real action theories whose paths run over not only the past but also the future, we briefly review the theorem on the normalized matrix element of an operator O^\hat{\cal O}, which is defined in terms of the future and past states with a proper inner product IQI_Q that makes a given Hamiltonian normal. The theorem states that, provided that the operator O^\hat{\cal O} is QQ-Hermitian, i.e. Hermitian with regard to the proper inner product IQI_Q, the normalized matrix element becomes real and time-develops under a QQ-Hermitian Hamiltonian for the past and future states selected such that the absolute value of the transition amplitude from the past state to the future state is maximized. Discussing what the theorem implicates, we speculate that the future-included complex action theory would be the most elegant quantum theory.

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@article{arxiv.1710.02071,
  title  = {Reality from maximizing overlap in the future-included theories},
  author = {Keiichi Nagao and Holger Bech Nielsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02071},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Latex 16 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the 20th workshop "What Comes Beyond the Standard Models", Bled, Slovenia, Jul.9-17, 2017