Abstract
The problem of the time evolution of a quantum mechanical system which is continually observed is revisited. Recent results of Aharonov and Vardi about the ‘Feynman paths’ are rigorously obtained without particular assumptions about the Hamiltonian and the measuring device.
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Exner, P. On the ‘Feynman paths’. Lett Math Phys 6, 215–220 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00403274
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