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Nonlocality and Gleason's lemma. Part I. Deterministic theories

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J. S. Bell's classic 1966 review paper on the foundations of quantum mechanics led directly to the Bell nonlocality theorem. It is not widely appreciated that the review paper contained the basic ingredients needed for a nonlocality result which holds in certain situations where the Bell inequality is not violated. We present in this paper a systematic formulation and evaluation of an argument due to Stairs in 1983, which establishes a nonlocality result based on the Bell-Kochen-Specker “paradox” in quantum mechanics.

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  1. Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University, 10 Merton Street, OX1 4JJ, Oxford, United Kingdom

    H. R. Brown

  2. Departamento de Matemática, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marquês de São Vicente 225, 22453, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    G. Svetlichny

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Brown, H.R., Svetlichny, G. Nonlocality and Gleason's lemma. Part I. Deterministic theories. Found Phys 20, 1379–1387 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883492

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