ISRN Mathematical Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 327278, 37 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/327278
Research Article

Quantum Histories and Quantum Complementarity

Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan

Received 6 August 2011; Accepted 27 September 2011

Academic Editor: F. Sugino

Copyright © 2012 Danko Georgiev. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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