2002/08/29 by Hrvoje Nikolić, H. Nikolic · 3 citations
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paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1023/b:fopl.0000035670.31755.0a
published in arXiv (Cornell University) 17(4), 363-380 (Cornell University) · 14 pages, 1 figure; revised, extended, title modified, to appear in Found. Phys. Lett
openalex publication_date 2002/08/29 · arxiv created 2004/01/22 · arxiv updated 2014/11/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
After explaining why the negative densities and superluminal velocities that appear in the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of bosonic relativistic quantum mechanics do not lead to inconsistencies, we study particle trajectories in bosonic quantum field theory. A new continuously changing hidden variable - the effectivity of a particle (a number between 0 and 1) - leads to a causal description of the processes of particle creation and destruction. When the field enters one of nonoverlapping wave-functional packets with a definite number of particles, then the effectivity of the particles corresponding to this packet is 1, while that of all other particles is 0.