On Noncontextual, Non-Kolmogorovian Hidden Variable Theories
Quantum Physics
2017-02-01 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
One implication of Bell's theorem is that there cannot in general be hidden variable models for quantum mechanics that both are noncontextual and retain the structure of a classical probability space. Thus, some hidden variable programs aim to retain noncontextuality at the cost of using a generalization of the Kolmogorov probability axioms. We generalize a theorem of Feintzeig (2015) to show that such programs are committed to the existence of a finite null cover for some quantum mechanical experiments, i.e., a finite collection of probability zero events whose disjunction exhausts the space of experimental possibilities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.03518,
title = {On Noncontextual, Non-Kolmogorovian Hidden Variable Theories},
author = {Benjamin H. Feintzeig and Samuel C. Fletcher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.03518},
year = {2017}
}