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Nonlocality and Gleason's lemma. Part 2. Stochastic theories

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I derive a Gleason-type contradiction from assumptions weaker than those needed to reach a Bell inequality. By establishing the inconsistency between local realism and QM's perfect EPR-type anticorrelations, the proof fills in a gap left open by Bell arguments.

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  1. Department of Physics, 370 LeConte Hall, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, California, USA

    Andrew Elby

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Elby, A. Nonlocality and Gleason's lemma. Part 2. Stochastic theories. Found Phys 20, 1389–1397 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883493

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