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Life and death in the tails of the GRW wave function

arXiv

Authors: David Wallace

Year

2014

Paper ID

8258

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Preprint

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It is often assumed that the only effect of the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber (`GRW') dynamical collapse mechanism on the `tails' of the wavefunction that is, the components of superpositions on which the collapse is emph{not} centred is to reduce their weight. In consequence the tails are often thought to behave exactly as do the various branches in the Everett interpretation except for their much lower weight. These assumptions are demonstrably inaccurate: the collapse mechanism has substantial and detectable effects within the tails. The relevance of this misconception for the dynamical-collapse theories is debatable, though.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1407.4746 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4746 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4746

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