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The Space-time Origin of Quantum Mechanics: Covering Law

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Lorentz covariance imposed upon a quantum logic of local propositions for which all observers can consistently maintain state collapse descriptions, implies a condition on space-like separated propositions that if imposed on generally commuting ones would lead to the covering law, and hence to a hilbert-space model for the logic. Such a generalization can be argued if state preparation can be conditioned to space-like separated events using EPR-type correlations. This suggests that the covering law is related to space-time structure, though a final understanding of it, through a self-consistency requirement, will probably require quantum space-time.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9912099,
  title  = {The Space-time Origin of Quantum Mechanics: Covering Law},
  author = {George Svetlichny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9912099},
  year   = {2007}
}

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