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The role of completely positive mappings in quantum dynamics and measurement theory is reanalyzed in light of the possibility of a generalized dynamics.
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Dedicated to Professor J. S. Bell.
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Busch, P., Lahti, P.J. Completely positive mappings in quantum dynamics and measurement theory. Found Phys 20, 1429–1439 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883516
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