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Relative compatibility and joint distributions of observables

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The notion of relative compatibility of observables is treated and its relation to the existence of joint distributions is obtained. The case of conventional quantum mechanics is studied and a generalization to the case of the quantum logic approach to quantum mechanics is given. It is shown that relative compatibility is equivalent to the existence of so-called “type 1” joint distributions.

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  1. Institute for Measurement and Measurement Techniques of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

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Pulmannová, S. Relative compatibility and joint distributions of observables. Found Phys 10, 641–653 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00715045

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