Published March 18, 1999 | Version v1
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Feasible Histories, Maximum Entropy

Creators

  • 1. Dept. of Philosophy, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel)

Description

We consider the broadest possible consistency condition for a family of histories, which extends all previous proposals. A family that satisfies this condition is called feasible. On each feasible family of histories we choose a probability measure by maximizing entropy, while keeping the probabilities of commuting histories to their quantum mechanical values. This procedure is justified by the assumption that decoherence increases entropy. Finally, a criterion for identifying the nearly classical families is proposed

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Book of Program and Abstracts of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Israel Physical Society and the Second Conference of the Israel Plasma Science and Technology Association

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Book of Program and Abstracts of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Israel Physical Society and the Second Conference of the Israel Plasma Science and Technology Association
Imprint Pagination
228 p.
Journal Volume
45
Series
Bulletin of the Israel Physical Society
Journal Page Range
p. 109
Report number
INIS-IL--006

Conference

Title
45. Annual Meeting of the Israel Physical Society; 2. Conference of the Israel Plasma Science and Technology Association
Dates
18 Mar 1999
Place
Tel-Aviv (Israel)

INIS

Country of Publication
Israel
Country of Input or Organization
Israel
INIS RN
32020204
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ENTROPY; MATHEMATICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS
Descriptors DEC
MECHANICS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES

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