An obstruction based approach to the Kochen-Specker theorem
Quantum Physics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
In [1] it was shown that the Kochen Specker theorem can be written in terms of the non-existence of global elements of a certain varying set over the partially ordered set of boolean subalgebras of projection operators on some Hilbert space. In this paper, we show how obstructions to the construction of such global elements arise, and how this provides a new way of looking at proofs of the theorem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9912018,
title = {An obstruction based approach to the Kochen-Specker theorem},
author = {John Hamilton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9912018},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 6 figures