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This talk is a survey of the question of joint measurability of coexistent observables and it is based on the monograph Operational Quantum Physics (Busch et al., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997) and on the papers (Lahti et al., Journal of Mathematical Physics 39, 6364–6371, 1998; Lahti and Pulmannova, Reports on Mathematical Physics 39, 339–351, 1997; 47, 199–212, 2001).
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Lahti, P. Coexistence and Joint Measurability in Quantum Mechanics. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 42, 893–906 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025406103210
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