On relativistic elements of reality

DOI10.1007/S10701-008-9238-9MaRDI QIDQ954774zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis Marchildon

Publication date 18 November 2008

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

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)

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.

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