A sum-over-histories account of an EPR(B) experiment

@article{Sinha1991ASA,
  title={A sum-over-histories account of an EPR(B) experiment},
  author={Sukanya Sinha and Rafael D. Sorkin},
  journal={Foundations of Physics Letters},
  year={1991},
  volume={4},
  pages={303-335}
}
We analyze a variant of the EPRB experiment within a framework for quantum mechanics that rests on a radical interpretation of the sum over histories. Within this framework, reality is (just as classically) a single “history”, e.g. a definite collection of particles undergoing definite motions; and quantum dynamics appears as a kind of stochastic law of motion for that history, a law formulated in terms of non-classical probability-amplitudes. No state vectors enter this framework, and their… 
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