25–28 May 2026
Albano Building 3
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Superluminal Transformations and Indeterminism

25 May 2026, 11:20
20m
Albano 3: 4204 - SU Conference Room (56 seats) (Albano Building 3)

Albano 3: 4204 - SU Conference Room (56 seats)

Albano Building 3

Hannes Alfvéns väg 12, 114 19 Stockholm
56

Speaker

Ms Amrapali Sen (International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies)

Description

Quantum theory is widely regarded as fundamentally indeterministic, yet classical frameworks can also exhibit indeterminism once infinite information is abandoned. At the same time, relativity is usually taken to forbid superluminal signalling, yet Lorentz symmetry formally admits superluminal transformations (SpTs). Dragan and Ekert have argued that SpTs entail indeterminism analogous to the quantum type. Here, we prove a no-go theorem based on natural assumptions of consistent causal embedding of events across reference-frame transformations in a world with finite information. One way to interpret this is that superluminal transformations (SpTs) and finite information cannot coexist. Any theory accommodating SpTs must therefore allow unbounded information content, leading to a deterministic ontology akin to that of classical theories formulated over the real numbers. Thus, any apparent indeterminism arising from superluminal transformations reflects only probabilities arising from subjective ignorance, unlike the objective nature of probabilities in quantum theory, indicating that the claimed indeterminacy from superluminal extensions is not quantum.

Author

Ms Amrapali Sen (International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies)

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