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See for example in Griffiths' book Consistent Quantum TheoryMorbert said:Do you have a reference for this discussion?
at the top of page 124:Ch. 10 Consistent Histories: Text ( PostScript or PDF )
Must the orthogonality conditions in (10.20) be satisfied exactly, or should one allow small deviations from consistency? Inasmuch as the consistency conditions form part of the axiomatic structure of quantum theory, in the same sense as the Born rule discussed in the previous chapter, it is natural to require that they be satisfied exactly. On the other hand, as first pointed out by Dowker and Kent, it is plausible that when the off-diagonal terms ##\langle K(Y^\alpha), K(Y^\beta)\rangle## in (10.24) are small compared to the diagonal terms ##\langle K(Y^\alpha), K(Y^\alpha)\rangle##, one can find a “nearby” family of histories in which the consistency conditions are satisfied exactly. A nearby family is one in which the original projectors used to define the events (properties at a particular time) making up the histories in the family are replaced by projectors onto nearby subspaces of the same dimension. For example, [...]. Of course, the histories in the nearby family are not the same as those in the original family. Nonetheless, since the subspaces which define the events are close to the original subspaces, their physical interpretation will be rather similar. In that case one would not commit a serious error by ignoring a small lack of consistency in the original family.
But let me add that I just mentioned this trouble with inexact zeros in CH to avoid that my comment gets misinterpreted as an attack on MWI or some of its proponents. I didn't want to attack CH or open an unrelated discussion about CH in this thread.