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Relational Blockworld: Towards a Discrete Graph Theoretic Foundation of Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Physics 2009-03-17 v1

Abstract

We propose a discrete path integral formalism over graphs fundamental to quantum mechanics (QM) based on our interpretation of QM called Relational Blockworld (RBW). In our approach, the transition amplitude is not viewed as a sum over all field configurations, but is a mathematical machine for measuring the symmetry of the discrete differential operator and source vector of the discrete action. Therefore, we restrict the path integral to the row space of the discrete differential operator, which also contains the discrete source vector, in order to avoid singularities. In this fashion we obtain the two-source transition amplitude over a "ladder" graph with N vertices. We interpret this solution in the context of the twin-slit experiment.

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@article{arxiv.0903.2642,
  title  = {Relational Blockworld: Towards a Discrete Graph Theoretic Foundation of Quantum Mechanics},
  author = {W. M. Stuckey and Timothy McDevitt and Michael Silberstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2642},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pp of text, 2 figures