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Does Quantum Nonlocality Irremediably Conflict with Special Relativity?

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We reconsider the problem of the compatibility of quantum nonlocality and the requests for a relativistically invariant theoretical scheme. We begin by discussing a recent important paper by T. Norsen on this problem and we enlarge our considerations to give a general picture of the conceptually relevant issue to which this paper is devoted.

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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    GianCarlo Ghirardi

  2. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

    GianCarlo Ghirardi

  3. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    GianCarlo Ghirardi

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Ghirardi, G. Does Quantum Nonlocality Irremediably Conflict with Special Relativity?. Found Phys 40, 1379–1395 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-009-9391-9

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