Reichenbach's common cause principle and quantum field theory |
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Authors: | Miklós Rédei |
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Institution: | 1. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Loránd E?tv?s University, Rákóczi út 5, H-1088, Budapest, Hungary
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Abstract: | Reichenbach's principles of a probabilistic common cause of probabilistic correlations is formulated in terms of relativistic
quantum field theory, and the problem is raised whether correlations in relativistic quantum field theory between events represented
by projections in local observable algebrasA(V1) andA(V2) pertaining to spacelike separated spacetime regions V1 and V2 can be explained by finding a probabilistic common cause of the correlation in Reichenbach's sense. While this problem remains
open, it is shown that if all superluminal correlations predicted by the vacuum state between events inA(V1) andA(V2) have a genuinely probabilistic common cause, then the local algebrasA(V1) andA(V2) must be statistically independent in the sense of C*-independence. |
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