Decoherence, branching, and the Born rule in a mixed-state Everettian multiverse.

In Everettian quantum mechanics, justifications for the Born rule appeal to self-locating uncertainty or decision theory. Such justifications have focused exclusively on a pure-state Everettian multiverse, represented by a wavefunction. Recent works in quantum foundations suggest that it is viable t...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 205; no. 4; pp. 1 - 33
Main Authors: Chua, Eugene Y. S., Chen, Eddy Keming
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2025
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