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  • adjective mathematics, of a function Not affected by a specified group action.

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  • In particular, these distributions are stationary or, what amounts to the same thing within the framework of Bohmian mechanics, equivariant.

    Bohmian Mechanics Goldstein, Sheldon 2006

  • A probability distribution ρψ on configuration space, depending upon the wave function ψ, is equivariant if

    Bohmian Mechanics Goldstein, Sheldon 2006

  • It is an immediate consequence of the guiding equation and the quantum continuity equation that ρψ = | ψ (q) | 2 is equivariant.

    Bohmian Mechanics Goldstein, Sheldon 2006

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