No time asymmetry from quantum mechanics

Don N. Page
Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4034 – Published 28 June 1993
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Abstract

With CPT-invariant initial conditions that commute with CPT-invariant final conditions, the respective probabilities (when defined) of a set of histories and its CPT reverse are equal, giving a CPT-symmetric universe. This leads me to question whether the asymmetry of the Gell-Mann–Hartle decoherence functional for ordinary quantum mechanics should be interpreted as an asymmetry of time.

  • Received 16 February 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.4034

©1993 American Physical Society

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Don N. Page

  • CIAR Cosmology Program, Theoretical Physics Institute, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2J1

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Vol. 70, Iss. 26 — 28 June 1993

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