On relativistic elements of reality

DOI10.1007/S10701-008-9238-9zbMATH Open1152.81656arXiv0802.2537OpenAlexW2061941591MaRDI QIDQ954774FDOQ954774

Louis Marchildon

Publication date: 18 November 2008

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Several arguments have been proposed some years ago, attempting to prove the impossibility of defining Lorentz-invariant elements of reality. I find that a sufficient condition for the existence of elements of reality, introduced in these proofs, seems to be used also as a necessary condition. I argue that Lorentz-invariant elements of reality can be defined but, as Vaidman pointed out, they won't satisfy the so-called product rule. In so doing I obtain algebraic constraints on elements of reality associated with a maximal set of commuting Hermitian operators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2537

zbMATH Keywords

interpretationquantum mechanicsLorentz invarianceelements of reality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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