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Title
Non-bicolourable finite configurations of rays and their deformations
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Abstract
A new infinite family of examples of finite non-bicolourable configurations of rays in Hilbert space is described. Such configurations appear in the analysis of quantum mechanics in terms of Bell's inequalities and the 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 4 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.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of physics: A: mathematical and general. - London, 1968 - 2006
Publication
London : 2006
ISSN
0305-4470
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/39/10/014
Volume/pages
39 :10 (2006) , p. 2457-2476
ISI
000236776000015
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UAntwerpen
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