arXiv 1504.005302015-04quant-phmath.PR

Contextuality-by-Default: A Brief Overview of Ideas, Concepts, and Terminology

Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, Janne V. Kujala, Victor H. Cervantes

备注：: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9535 (with the corrected list of authors) (2016)
发表信息：: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9535, 12-23, 2016
DOI：: 10.1007/978-3-319-28675-4-2

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This paper is a brief overview of the concepts involved in measuring the degree of contextuality and detecting contextuality in systems of binary measurements of a finite number of objects. We discuss and clarify the main concepts and terminology of the theory called "contextuality-by-default," and then discuss a possible generalization of the theory from binary to arbitrary measurements.

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