On information-theoretic characterizations of physical theories

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2004.02.001MaRDI QIDQ640067zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans Halvorson

Publication date 17 October 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310101

zbMATH Keywords

quantum informationBanach algebraconvex setJordan

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Jordan structures on Banach spaces and algebras (17C65)

Abstract: Clifton, Bub, and Halvorson [Foundations of Physics 33, 1561 (2003)] have recently argued that quantum theory is characterized by its satisfaction of three information-theoretic axioms. However, it is not difficult to construct apparent counterexamples to the CBH characterization theorem. In this paper, we discuss the limits of the characterization theorem, and we provide some technical tools for checking whether a theory (specified in terms of the convex structure of its state space) falls within these limits.

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