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We suggest solving the measurement problem by postulating the existence of a special future final boundary condition for the universe. Although this is an extension of the way boundary conditions are usually chosen (in terrestrial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eyal Gruss

Motivated by studies of indirect measurements in quantum mechanics, we investigate stochastic differential equations with a fixed point subject to an additional infinitesimal repulsive perturbation. We conjecture, and prove for an important…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Michel Bauer , Denis Bernard

According to Pavi\v{c}i{\'c}, Kochen and Specker's 117-observable set is not a ``Kochen-Specker set''. By the same reason, in arXiv:2502.13787, Pavi\v{c}i{\'c} claims that 10 statements in our paper ``Optimal conversion of Kochen-Specker…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Stefan Trandafir , Adán Cabello

The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been a problem since its founding days. A large contribution to the discussion of possible interpretations of quantum mechanics is given by the so-called impossibility proofs for hidden variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Ronnie Hermens

Compatibility between the realist tenants of value-definiteness and causality is called into question by several realism impossibility proofs in which their formal elements are shown to conflict. We review how this comes about in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Williams

The problem of time, considered as a problem in the usual physical context, is reflected in relation with the paper by Kauffman and Smolin (gr-qc/9703026). It is shown that the problem is a misposed problem in the sense that it was raised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Hitoshi Kitada , Lancelot R. Fletcher

This is a philosophical paper. It claims that there is a gap to be filled in the relationship between complexity theory (CT) and quantum theory (QT). This gap concerns two very distinct understandings of time. The paper provides the ground…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Carlos Eduardo Maldonado

In this paper we shall show that the metrics are equivalent which obtained by Feng and Mao in [[1], Y. Feng and W. Mao, Equivalence of Cone Metric spaces and Metric Spaces, Fixed Point Theory, 11(2)(2010), 259-264.] and Du in [[2], Wei-Shih…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-31 Mehdi Asadi , Hossein Soleimani

The main purpose of this short note, on the one hand, to is rigorize some part of the proof of Theorem 1.3 in [11] in a simple way, and on the other hand, to give an alternative argument from local inequalities to global ones.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jungang Li , Guozhen Lu

Cohen and Hiley [Phys. Rev. A 52, 76 (1995)] have criticized the analysis of Hardy's gedanken experiment according to which the contradiction with quantum theory in Hardy's experiment arises due the failure of the "product rule" for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Vaidman

What if the paradoxical nature of quantum theory could find its source in some undecidability analog to that of G\"odel's incompleteness theorem ? This essay aims at arguing for such G\"odelian hunch via two case studies. Firstly, using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Hippolyte Dourdent

The aim of this short note is to give counterexamples to two results by D. Y. Gao [5, Th. 16], [4, Th. 2] and to improve a related result by S.-C. Fang, D. Y. Gao, R.-L. Sheu and S.-Y. Wu [1, Th. 3].

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-26 M. D. Voisei , C. Zalinescu

This book concerns the metasemantics of quantum mechanics (QM). Roughly, it pursues an investigation at the intersection of philosophy of physics and philosophy of language, and it offers a critical analysis of rival explanations of the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Iulian D. Toader

Bell nonlocality and Kochen-Specker contextuality are two remarkable nonclassical features of quantum theory, related to strong correlations between outcomes of measurements performed on quantum systems. Both phenomena can be witnessed by…

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory is investigated from a philosophical point of view. It is justified the opinion that the philosophical attitude the Copenhagen interpretation is based on is in principle inevitable for a real…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 Martin Kober

An experimental test of the "special state" theory of quantum measurement is proposed. It should be feasible with present-day laboratory equipment and involves a slightly elaborated Stern-Gerlach setup. The "special state" theory is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 L. S. Schulman

In this note we extend the continuous dual Hahn process constructed by Corwin and Knizel on a finite time interval to the entire real line by taking a limit of a closely related Markov process. We also characterize this Markov processes by…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Wlodek Bryc

Duality, not monism, constitutes the hermeneutic lens that characterizes the original Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Therefore, evoking the principles of correspondence and complementarity, in this work we re-assert a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Vincenzo Chilla

We discuss two approaches to producing generalized parity proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem. Such proofs use contexts of observables whose product is $I$ or $-I$; we call them constraints. In the first approach, one starts with a fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-15 Petr Lisonek , Robert Raussendorf , Vijaykumar Singh

In various papers the authors have derived asymptotics for moments of certain cotangent sums related to the Riemann Hypothesis. S. Bettin has given an upper bound for the error term in these asymptotic results. In the present paper the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Helmut Maier , Michael Th. Rassias