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Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3038–3041 (1995)

Properties of Consistent Histories

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Fay Dowker
Physics Department, University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106

Adrian Kent
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW, United Kingdom

Received 26 August 1994; revised 21 April 1995; published in the issue dated 23 October 1995

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.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.3038
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.3038
PACS:
03.65.Bz
 
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