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View SchemaThe Conway-Kochen argument and relativistic GRW models
| Authors | A. Bassi, G. C. Ghirardi |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0610209 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0610209 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10701-006-9097-1 |
| Journal | Found. Phys. 37, 169 (2007) |
Abstract
In a recent paper, Conway and Kochen proposed what is now known as the "Free Will theorem" which, among other things, should prove the impossibility of combining GRW models with special relativity, i.e., of formulating relativistically invariant models of spontaneous wavefunction collapse. Since their argument basically amounts to a non-locality proof for any theory aiming at reproducing quantum correlations, and since it was clear since very a long time that any relativistic collapse model must be non-local in some way, we discuss why the theorem of Conway and Kochen does not affect the program of formulating relativistic GRW models.
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