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On the relation between quantum theory and probability

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08848v1
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:24:19 GMT
Title: On the relation between quantum theory and probability
Authors: Louis Marchildon
Abstract summary: The theory of probability and the quantum theory, the one mathematical and the other physical, are related in that each admits a number of very different interpretations. It has been proposed that the conceptual problems of the quantum theory could be, if not resolved, at least mitigated by a proper interpretation of probability.
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Abstract: The theory of probability and the quantum theory, the one mathematical and the other physical, are related in that each admits a number of very different interpretations. It has been proposed that the conceptual problems of the quantum theory could be, if not resolved, at least mitigated by a proper interpretation of probability. We rather show, through a historical and analytical overview of probability and quantum theory, that if some interpretations of the one and the other go along particularly well, none follows in a unique way.

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