Equation 50 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing
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Symbol V
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The covariance equation from the previous section is the formal cost of that fact. Because V commutes with the group action, the radiation’s reduced state along the true heading is a rotated copy of the same state at heading zero,
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- [9] Reference Frames, Superselection Rules, and Quantum Information ↗
- [11] Superselection Rules and Quantum Protocols ↗
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