Connecting extended Wigner's friend arguments and noncontextuality
The Local Friendliness argument is an extended Wigner's friend no-go theorem that provides strong constraints on the nature of reality -- stronger even than those imposed by Bell's theorem or by noncontextuality arguments. In this work, we prove a variety of connections between Local Frien...
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Zusammenfassung: | The Local Friendliness argument is an extended Wigner's friend no-go theorem
that provides strong constraints on the nature of reality -- stronger even than
those imposed by Bell's theorem or by noncontextuality arguments. In this work,
we prove a variety of connections between Local Friendliness scenarios and
Kochen-Specker noncontextuality. Specifically, we first show how one can derive
new Local Friendliness inequalities using known tools and results from the
literature on Kochen-Specker noncontextuality. In doing so, we provide a new
derivation for some of the facets of the Local Friendliness polytope, and we
prove that this polytope is equal to the Bell polytope in a wide range of
extended Wigner's friend scenarios with multipartite agents and sequential
measurements. We then show how any possibilistic Kochen-Specker argument can be
mathematically translated into a related proof of the Local Friendliness no-go
theorem. In particular, we construct a novel kind of Local Friendliness
scenario where a friend implements several compatible measurements (or joint
measurements of these) in between the superobserver's operations on them. We
illustrate this with the well-known 5-cycle and Peres-Mermin contextuality
arguments. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2409.07537 |