Mathematics of the Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics
- 1 August 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 12 (8) , 1711-1718
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1665795
Abstract
The mathematical structure of the simplest nontrivial hidden variable theory is derived. The core of the resulting theory is an essentially unique nonlinear differential equation which gives a causal description of the continuous collapse of the wavefunction during a measurement. It is shown that the simplest collapse equation is the same as the equation given ad hoc by Bohm and Bub.Keywords
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