Non-bicolourable finite configurations of rays and their deformations

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/10/014zbMATH Open1093.81006OpenAlexW3105607683MaRDI QIDQ3376791FDOQ3376791

Authors: Artur E. Ruuge 

Publication date: 24 March 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A new infinite family of examples of finite non-bicolorable configurations of rays in Hilbert space is described. Such configurations appear in the analysis of quantum mechanics in terms of Bell's inequalities and Kochen-Specker theorem and illustrate that there is no measurable space in the background of the probability model of a quantum system. The mentioned examples are naturally parametrized by a positive integer divisible by four and by several complex-valued parameters, whose number depends on this integer. In order to compare two configurations with the same number of rays, a notion of deformation of a configuration is introduced. The constructed examples are then interpreted as obtained by way of deformations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2693

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zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert spacequantum mechanicsdeformationrayKochen-specker theoremnon-bicolourable configuration of ray

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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