Contextuality: At the Borders of Paradox

2020/11/07 by Samson Abramsky, Abramsky, Samson · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #Category Theory (math.CT) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO) #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2011.04899

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Abstract

Contextuality is a key feature of quantum mechanics. We present the sheaf-theoretic approach to contextuality introduced by Abramsky and Brandenburger, and show how it covers a range of logical and physical phenomena "at the borders of paradox".

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