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Valuations on Functionally Closed Sets of Quantum Mechanical Observables and Von Neumann's 'No-Hidden-Variables' Theorem

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We apply the machinery of projection lattices and von Neumann algebras to analyze the question of how modal interpretations can (and do) circumvent von Neumann's infamous 'no-hidden-variables' theorem.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9802038,
  title  = {Valuations on Functionally Closed Sets of Quantum Mechanical Observables and Von Neumann's 'No-Hidden-Variables' Theorem},
  author = {Jason Zimba and Rob Clifton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9802038},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

39 Pages, AMS-LaTeX, To Appear in Dennis Dieks and Pieter Vermaas (eds.), The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998