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We analyze the Schr\"{o}dinger dynamics and the Schr\"{o}dinger function (or the so-called wavefunction) in the following four aspects. (1) The Schr\"{o}dinger equation is reconstructed from scratch in the real field only, without referring…

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We discuss the so-called Schr{\"o}dinger problem of deducing the microscopic (basically stochastic) evolution that is consistent with given positive boundary probability densities for a process covering a finite fixed time interval. The…

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