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physics.hist-ph2020
Reviving Frequentism
Mario Hubert
Philosophers now seem to agree that frequentism is an untenable strategy to explain the meaning of probabilities. Nevertheless, I want to revive frequentism, and I will do so by gr…
physics.hist-ph2018
When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom
Vera Hartenstein, Mario Hubert
We show that in the Maxwell-Lorentz theory of classical electrodynamics most initial values for fields and particles lead to an ill-defined dynamics, as they exhibit singularities…
physics.hist-ph2017
The Wave-Function as a Multi-Field
Mario Hubert, Davide Romano
It is generally argued that if the wave-function in the de Broglie--Bohm theory is a physical field, it must be a field in configuration space. Nevertheless, it is possible to inte…