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Diagrams of Kochen—Specker Type Constructions

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We present orthogonality diagrams of several quantum logics without anytwo-valued state. We present the smallest (for various notions of “smallness”) knownexamples of such so-called Kochen—Specker-type constructions.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, 166 27, Prague, Czech Republic

    Josef Tkadlec

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Tkadlec, J. Diagrams of Kochen—Specker Type Constructions. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 39, 921–926 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003695317353

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