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We briefly review the history of de Broglie's notion of the “double solution” and of the ideas which developed from this. We then go on to an extension of these ideas to the many-body system, and bring out the nonlocality implied in such an extension. Finally, we summarize further developments that have stemmed from de Broglie's suggestions.
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Bohm, D.J., Hiley, B.J. The de Broglie pilot wave theory and the further development of new insights arising out of it. Found Phys 12, 1001–1016 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01889273
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