The Space-Time Origin of Quantum Mechanics: Covering Law [Book Review]

Foundations of Physics 30 (11):1819-1847 (2000)
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Abstract

A Hilbert-space model for quantum logic follows from space-time structure in theories with consistent state collapse descriptions. Lorentz covariance implies a condition on space-like separated propositions that if imposed on generally commuting ones would lead to the covering law, and such a generalization can be argued if state preparation can be conditioned to space-like separated events using EPR-type correlations. The covering law is thus related to space-time structure, though a final understanding of it, through a self-consistency requirement, will probably require quantum space-time

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