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In a recent work, it was shown by one of us (EGC) that Bell-Kochen-Specker inequality violations in phenomena satisfying the no-disturbance condition (a generalisation of the no-signalling condition) cannot in general be explained with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 J. C. Pearl , E. G. Cavalcanti

We give another proof, using tools from Geometric Invariant Theory, of a result due to S. Sam and A. Snowden in 2014, concerning the stability of Kro-necker coefficients. This result states that some sequences of Kronecker coefficients…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Maxime Pelletier

If YES, then we can look forward to physical realization of superluminal communication, as the original considerations of the ``no-cloning'' theorem were motivated in part as an explanation of why certain schemes for superluminal signaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirk T. McDonald

We analyze the validity of Bell and Kochen-Specker theorems under local (or noncontextual) realism but avoiding an assumption of the existence of a joint probability distribution for incompatible observables. We formulate a realist model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Ángel Rivas

In this reply, we point out that the claim by De Zela[2] is unjustified because the setup he discusses is \emph{not} equivalent to the setup analysed in our paper[1]. Hence his subsequent argument claiming the reproducibility of our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alok Kumar Pan , Dipankar Home

We present a compact theorem which reveals the fact that static spatially regular massive scalar fields with nonminimal coupling to gravity cannot form spherically symmetric asymptotically flat horizonless matter configurations. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-09 Shahar Hod

Modal quantum theory (MQT) is a simplified cousin of ordinary Hilbert space quantum theory. We show that two important theorems of actual quantum theory, the Kochen-Specker theorem excluding non-contextual hidden variables and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Benjamin Schumacher , Michael D. Westmoreland

The purpose of this note is to complete the interesting review on quantum contextuality [1] that appeared recently. In particular we will introduce and discuss the ideas of extracontextuality and extravalence, that allow one to relate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Philippe Grangier

We investigate the geometry of correspondences between curves, and prove that correspondences over a non-Archimedean valued field have potentially stable reduction, generalising and strengthening results of Coleman and Liu. This yields a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Jan Vonk

In these notes we give a shortened and more direct proof of Goto's generalized Kaehler stability theorem stating that if (J_1,J_2) is a generalized kaehler structure for which J_2 is determined by a nowhere vanishing closed form, then small…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Gil R. Cavalcanti

We will first define what is meant by ``hidden variables". Then, we will review various theorems proving the impossibility of theories introducing such variables and then show that the de Broglie-Bohm theory is not refuted by those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Jean Bricmont

Certain concrete "ontological models" for quantum mechanics (models in which measurement outcomes are deterministic and quantum states are equivalent to classical probability distributions over some space of `hidden variables') are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Terry Rudolph

A new theory-independent noncontextuality inequality is presented [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110403 (2015)] based on Kochen-Specker (KS) set without imposing the assumption of determinism. By proposing novel noncontextuality inequalities, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Zhen-Peng Xu , Debashis Saha , Hong-Yi Su , Marcin Pawlowski , Jing-Ling Chen

Unsharp spin 1 observables arise from the fact that a residual uncertainty about the actual orientation of the measurement device remains. If the uncertainty is below a certain level, and if the distribution of measurement errors is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas Breuer

Every set (finite or infinite) of quantum vectors (states) satisfies generalized orthoarguesian equations ($n$OA). We consider two 3-dim Kochen-Specker (KS) sets of vectors and show how each of them should be represented by means of a Hasse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Norman D. Megill , Mladen Pavicic

Starting from the problem of describing cohomological invariants of Poisson manifolds we prove in a sense a ``no-go'' result: the differential graded Lie algebra of de Rham forms on a smooth Poisson manifold is formal.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Sharygin , D. Talalaev

We present a number of observables-based proofs of the Kochen-Specker (KS) theorem based on the N-qubit Pauli group for N >= 4, thus adding to the proofs that have been presented earlier for the two- and three-qubit groups. These proofs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Mordecai Waegell , P. K. Aravind

In this paper we present new proofs of the Conway-Gordon-Sachs and Sachs Theorems on the linked cycles in graphs embedded in $\R^3$. We reduce these theorems to certain property of graphs mapped to the plane.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Arseny Zimin

We give a geometric proof of Conn's linearization theorem for analytic Poisson structures, without using the fast convergence method.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nguyen Tien Zung

The PBR theorem is widely seen as one of the most important no-go theorems in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Recently, in Found. Phys. 53(3): 64 (2023), it has been argued that there is no reality to the PBR theorem using a pair of…

General Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Marcoen J. T. F. Cabbolet