The universal logic of repeated experiments
Abstract
Let be the event space of an experiment that can be indefinitely repeated. A natural question arises: given a countable cardinal , which is the event space of the -times repeated experiment? In the case of classical experiments, where is a (complete) Boolean algebra on some set , i.e. a classical or distributive logic, the answer is more or less known: the (complete) Boolean algebra on generated by . But, what if is not a Boolean algebra? In this paper we give a constructive answer to this question for any and in the context of general orthocomplemented complete lattices, i.e. general logics. Concretely, given a general logic defining the event space of a given experiment, we construct a logic representing the event space of the -times repeated experiment, in such a way that and are isomorphic if , and such that is distributive if and only if so is . We also extend our construction to the case in which the event space changes from one repetition to another and the cardinal is arbitrary. This gives rise to tensor products of families of orthocomplemented complete lattices, in terms of which .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.00118,
title = {The universal logic of repeated experiments},
author = {Sergio Daniel Grillo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.00118},
year = {2026}
}