Dynamics and predictions in the co-event interpretation

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Title:	Dynamics and predictions in the co-event interpretation
Authors:	Ghazi-Tabatabai, Yousef Wallden, Petros
Keywords:	Foundations of quantum mechanics; measurement theory Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods Algebraic methods
Issue Date:	May-2009
Publisher:	IOP Publishing Ltd.
Citation:	Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2009, Vol. 42, 235303
Abstract:	Sorkin has introduced a new, observer independent, interpretation of quantum mechanics that can give a successful realist account of the 'quantum micro-world' as well as explaining how classicality emerges at the level of observable events for a range of systems including single time 'Copenhagen measurements'. This 'co-event interpretation' presents us with a new ontology, in which a single 'co-event' is real. A new ontology necessitates a review of the dynamical and predictive mechanism of a theory, and in this paper we begin the process by exploring means of expressing the dynamical and predictive content of histories theories in terms of co-events.
Description:	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3827
ISSN:	1751-8113 1751-8121 (online)
Alternative Location:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/42/23/235303 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009JPhA...42w5303G
Copyright:	2009 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (TP)

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