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The Born Representation Theorem and the Unistochastic Theorem
Jacob A. Barandes
This paper presents self-contained, constructive proofs of two new theorems about stochastic matrices, with direct relevance to quantum theory. The first theorem, herein called the…
The History of Hilbert-Space Formulations of Classical Physics
Jacob A. Barandes
Hilbert-space techniques are widely used not only for quantum theory, but also for classical physics. Two important examples are the Koopman-von Neumann (KvN) formulation and the m…
Against Many Worlds
Emily Adlam, Jacob A. Barandes
Any viable interpretation of quantum theory needs to account for the Born rule, from which the theory gets its probabilistic empirical predictions. In this paper, we give an overvi…
Pilot-Wave Theories as Hidden Markov Models
Jacob A. Barandes
The original version of the de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory, also called Bohmian mechanics, attempted to treat the wave function or pilot wave as a part of the physical ontology…
Historical Debates over the Physical Reality of the Wave Function
Jacob A. Barandes
This paper provides a detailed historical account of early debates over wave-function realism, the modern term for the view that the wave function of quantum theory is physically r…
The Trouble with Weak Values
Jacob A. Barandes
In quantum theory, a weak value is a complex number with a somewhat technical definition: it is a ratio whose numerator is the matrix element of a self-adjoint operator and whose d…