Properties of Consistent Histories
arXiv:gr-qc/9409037 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.3038
Abstract
We describe some properties of consistent sets of histories in the Gell-Mann--Hartle formalism, and give an example to illustrate that one cannot recover the standard predictions, retrodictions and inferences of quasiclassical physics using the criterion of consistency alone.
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