Context-independent mapping and free choice are equivalent

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15910v6
• Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 08:29:12 GMT
• Title: Context-independent mapping and free choice are equivalent
• Authors: Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov
• Abstract summary: We show that an HVM that postulates CI mapping is equivalent to an HVM that postulates free choice. If one denies the possibility that a given empirical scenario can be described by an HVM in which measurements depend on other measurements' settings, free choice violations should be denied too.
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• Abstract: Free choice (or statistical independence) assumption in a hidden variable model (HVM) means that the settings chosen by experimenters do not depend on the values of the hidden variable. The assumption of context-independent (CI) mapping in an HVM means that the results of a measurement do not depend on settings for other measurements. If the measurements are spacelike separated, this assumption is known as local causality. Both free choice and CI mapping assumptions are considered necessary for derivation of the Bell-type criteria of contextuality/nonlocality. It is known, however, for a variety of special cases, that the two assumptions are not logically independent. We show here, in complete generality, for any system of random variables with or without disturbance/signaling, that an HVM that postulates CI mapping is equivalent to an HVM that postulates free choice. If one denies the possibility that a given empirical scenario can be described by an HVM in which measurements depend on other measurements' settings, free choice violations should be denied too, and vice versa. KEYWORDS: Contextuality; context-independent mapping; free choice; local causality; nonlocality.

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