On Reichenbach's common cause principle and Reichenbach's notion of common cause

Details On Reichenbach's common cause principle and Reichenbach's notion of common cause On Reichenbach's common cause principle and Reichenbach's notion of common cause

1998-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9805066v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

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It is shown that, given any finite set of pairs of random events in a Boolean algebra which are correlated with respect to a fixed probability measure on the algebra, the algebra can be extended in such a way that the extension contains events that can be regarded as common causes of the correlations in the sense of Reichenbach's definition of common cause. It is shown, further, that, given any quantum probability space and any set of commuting events in it which are correlated with respect to a fixed quantum state, the quantum probability space can be extended in such a way that the extension contains common causes of all the selected correlations, where common cause is again taken in the sense of Reichenbach's definition. It is argued that these results very strongly restrict the possible ways of disproving Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle.

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