Bacciagaluppi, Guido (2007) Probability and time symmetry in classical Markov processes. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Definitions of time symmetry and examples of time-directed behaviour are discussed in the framework of discrete Markov processes. It is argued that typical examples of time-directed behaviour can be described using time-symmetric transition probabilities. Some current arguments in favour of a distinction between past and future on the basis of probabilistic considerations are thereby judged to be unjustified.
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| Additional Information: | Submitted for publication in M. Suárez (ed.), Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics (Springer, Synthese Library). | ||||||
| Keywords: | probability, time symmetry, Markov processes, arrow of time | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Guido Bacciagaluppi | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2007 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:15 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 3534 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics | ||||||
| Date: | April 2007 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3534 |
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