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Pair Distributions and Conditional Independence: Some Hints about the Structure of Strange Quantum Correlations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

N. D. Mermin
N. D. Mermin*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Atomic & Solid State Physics, Cornell University
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Abstract

Some statistical questions that arise in studies of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations are given precise and complete answers for a very simple but artificial set of pair distributions. Some recent results and conjectures about hidden variable representations of the more complex distributions that describe the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment are examined in the light of the behavior of the simple model.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 359 - 373
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1983

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Footnotes

†

I would like to thank Abner Shimony for reading and commenting upon an earlier version of the manuscript, and Anupam Garg for exercising great patience and mathematical skill in restraining some of my more exuberant conjectures. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMR 80-20429.

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