Contextual Value-definiteness and the Kochen-Specker Paradox
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Compatibility between the realist tenants of value-definiteness and causality is called into question by several realism impossibility proofs in which their formal elements are shown to conflict. We review how this comes about in the Kochen-Specker and von Neumann proofs and point out a connection between their key assumptions: a constraint on realist causality via additivity in the latter proof, noncontextuality in the former. We conclude that value-definiteness and contextuality are indeed not mutually exclusive.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0512052,
title = {Contextual Value-definiteness and the Kochen-Specker Paradox},
author = {Ken Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0512052},
year = {2007}
}
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46 pages, 26 figures