Contextuality in the Bundle Approach, n-Contextuality, and the Role of Holonomy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14132v4
• Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:27:42 GMT
• Title: Contextuality in the Bundle Approach, n-Contextuality, and the Role of Holonomy
• Authors: Sidiney B. Montanhano,
• Abstract summary: Contextuality can be understood as the impossibility to construct a globally consistent description of a model even if there is local agreement. We can describe contextuality with the bundle approach, where the scenario is represented as a simplicial complex. We introduce a hierarchy called n-contextuality to explore the dependence of contextual behavior of a model to the topology of the scenario.
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• Abstract: Contextuality can be understood as the impossibility to construct a globally consistent description of a model even if there is local agreement. In particular, quantum models present this property. We can describe contextuality with the bundle approach, where the scenario is represented as a simplicial complex, the fibers being the sets of outcomes, and contextuality as the non-existence of global section in the measure bundle. Using the generalization to non-finite outcome fibers, we built in details the concept of measure bundle, demonstrating the Fine-Abramsky-Brandenburger theorem for the bundle formalism. We introduce a hierarchy called n-contextuality to explore the dependence of contextual behavior of a model to the topology of the scenario, following the construction of it as a simplicial complex. With it we exemplify the dependence on higher homology groups and show that GHZ models, thus quantum theory, has all levels of the hierarchy. Also, we give an example of how non-trivial topology of the scenario result an increase of contextual behavior. For the first level of the hierarchy, we construct the concept of connection through Markov operators for the measure bundle. Taking the case of equal fibers we can identify the outcomes as the basis of a vector space, that transform according to a group extracted from the connection. We thus show that contextuality has a relationship with the non-triviality of the holonomy group in the respective frame bundle.

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