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View SchemaThe Space-time Origin of Quantum Mechanics: Covering Law
| Authors | George Svetlichny |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9912099 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9912099 |
| Journal | Found.Phys. 30 (2000) 1819-1847 |
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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