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Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Implied by the Correspondence Principle ?

Kurt Gottfried

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9812042

Abstract

The classical limit of the Schrodinger equation implies the orthodox statistical interpretation for degrees of freedom in finite-dimensional subspaces of the full Hilbert space, but the argument presented does not imply the Born interpretation for degrees of freedom that have a classical counterpart.

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