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Grad student who wonders why he only returns to answer questions here when he has exams.


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answered Is it wrong to talk about wave functions of macroscopic bodies?
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comment Is it wrong to talk about wave functions of macroscopic bodies?
It would still be wrong because you cannot write a wavefunction for an object that is entangled with something else, in this case the environment.
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comment Charges of quarks and leptons
@Ron Add new particles? Aren't there constraints on the number of particle generations too?
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accepted Branch-point twist fields and operator insertions on a Riemann manifold
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comment Branch-point twist fields and operator insertions on a Riemann manifold
You're right! I stupidly overlooked the fact that correlation functions aren't just path integrals with operator insertions but are normalized to the partition function, at least in the treatment by these authors.
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comment Branch-point twist fields and operator insertions on a Riemann manifold
Reading my question again, I'm slightly amused by how I instinctively use the pronoun "we" instead of the more honest "they".
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revised Branch-point twist fields and operator insertions on a Riemann manifold
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asked Branch-point twist fields and operator insertions on a Riemann manifold