Quantum dynamics without the wavefunction
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Abstract: When suitably generalized and interpreted, the path-integral offers an alternative to the more familiar quantal formalism based on state-vectors, selfadjoint operators, and external observers. Mathematically one generalizes the path-integral-as-propagator to a {it quantal measure} on the space of all ``conceivable worlds, and this generalized measure expresses the dynamics or law of motion of the theory, much as Wiener measure expresses the dynamics of Brownian motion. Within such ``histories-based schemes new, and more ``realistic possibilities open up for resolving the philosophical problems of the state-vector formalism. In particular, one can dispense with the need for external agents by locating the predictive content of in its sets of measure zero: such sets are to be ``precluded. But unrestricted application of this rule engenders contradictions. One possible response would remove the contradictions by circumscribing the application of the preclusion concept. Another response, more in the tradition of ``quantum logic, would accommodate the contradictions by dualizing to a space of ``co-events and effectively identifying reality with an element of this dual space.
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