Global Kochen-Specker Contextuality Without Local Contextuality and Generalized Bell Nonlocality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28702v1
• Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 16:30:01 GMT
• Title: Global Kochen-Specker Contextuality Without Local Contextuality and Generalized Bell Nonlocality
• Abstract summary: A set of quantum data can look classical in every local test and still fail to admit a single classical explanation of the whole composite system.<n>Here global means global in the physical sense of the whole multipartite system, not the local/global terminology of sheaf theory.
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• Abstract: A set of quantum data can look classical in every local test and still fail to admit a single classical explanation of the whole composite system. We formulate this failure as global contextuality. Here global means global in the physical sense of the whole multipartite system, not the local/global terminology of sheaf theory. Each party's local statistics are noncontextual and each measured multipartite context admits a generalized local hidden-variable description, but the GLHV block descriptions cannot be promoted to a single noncontextual hidden-variable model for the whole system. Three bipartite constructions exhibit this separation. A polarization-path construction gives a direct global obstruction. A qubit-qutrit KCBS construction gives an algebraic scenario-level example, with explicit formulas for the unconditional KCBS operator, the correlation-polytope constraints, and the postselected violation. A flagged qutrit Werner-local state gives a state-level example: the state is entangled and local for all projective measurements, its local qutrit marginals do not violate KCBS, yet postselection rules out a single GNCHV model. We also spell out the classical composition lemma: classical conditional hidden variables can be absorbed into a larger hidden variable, whereas quantum contextual data need not allow such a factorization. Within the general Bell-type framework considered here, with arbitrary parties and arbitrary local compatible contexts, but no cross-party joint measurements, the absence of local contextuality and GLHV-type generalized Bell nonlocality does not imply the existence of a global noncontextual hidden-variable model. Global contextuality is thus a compositional obstruction to classical explanation.

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