Gleason-type theorems from Cauchy's functional equation

DOI10.1007/S10701-019-00275-XMaRDI QIDQ2286532zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Victoria J. Wright, Stefan Weigert

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12751

zbMATH Keywords

axioms of quantum theoryBorn ruledensity operatorsfunctional equationsGleason's theoremPOVMs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of functional equations and inequalities (39B05) Vector-valued measures and integration (46G10) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

Abstract: Gleason-type theorems derive the density operator and the Born rule formalism of quantum theory from the measurement postulate, by considering additive functions which assign probabilities to measurement outcomes. Additivity is also the defining property of solutions to Cauchy's functional equation. This observation suggests an alternative proof of the strongest known Gleason-type theorem, based on techniques used to solve functional equations.

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