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    Pilot Wave model that includes creation and annihilation of particles

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    The purpose of this paper is to come up with a Pilot Wave model of quantum field theory that incorporates particle creation and annihilation without sacrificing determinism. This has been previously attempted in an article by the same author titled "Incorporating particle creation and annihilation in Pilot Wave model", in a much less satisfactory way. In this paper I would like to "clean up" some of the things. In particular, I would like to get rid of a very unnatural concept of "visibility" of particles, which makes the model much simpler. On the other hand, I would like to add a mechanism for decoherence, which was absent in the previous version.Comment: 9 pages, no figure

    Pilot wave model without configuration or Fock spaces

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    The goal of this article is to come up with interpretation of quantum phenomena that is both local and deterministic. This is done by the means of envoking two different metrics, gog_o and gsg_s. These two metrics give very different "speeds of light": coc_o and csc_s, respectively. The gog_o and coc_o are, respectively, "ordinary" metric and speed of light that we are used to. On the other hand, csc_s is superluminal. In this paper I propose a model in which newly introduced signals, which are subject to gsg_s, are responsible for key quantum phenomena.Comment: 36 pages, no figure

    Gauge Fields in Causal Set Theory

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    This is the second paper in a series on the dynamics of matter fields in the causal set approach to quantum gravity. We start with the usual expression for the Lagrangian of a charged scalar field coupled to a SU(n) Yang-Mills field, in which the gauge field is represented by a connection form, and show how to write it in terms of holonomies between pairs of points, causal relations, and volumes or timelike distances, all of which have a natural correspondence in the causal set context. In the second part of the paper we present an alternative model, in which the gauge field appears as the result of a procedure inspired by the Kaluza-Klein reduction in continuum field theory, and the dynamics can be derived simply using the gravitational Lagrangian of the theory.Comment: 11 pages, no figure
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