Revised proof of the uniqueness theorem for `no collapse' interpretations of quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(99)00031-3MaRDI QIDQ720375zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jeffrey Bub, Rob Clifton, Sheldon Goldstein

Publication date 14 October 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9910097

zbMATH Keywords

weak separability`no collapse' interpretations of quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10)

Abstract: We show that the Bub-Clifton uniqueness theorem for 'no collapse' interpretations of quantum mechanics (Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 27, 181-219 (1996)) can be proved without the 'weak separability' assumption.

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