arXiv:quant-ph/0306003 · Journal of Mathematical Physics

Contextual approach to quantum mechanics and the theory of the fundamental prespace

Andrei Yu. Khrennikov

Published Feb 12, 2004• 29 citations

Abstract

We constructed a Hilbert space representation of a contextual Kolmogorov model. This representation is based on two fundamental observables—in the standard quantum model these are the position and momentum observables. This representation has all distinguishing features of the quantum model. Our representation is not standard model with hidden variables. In particular, this is not a reduction of the quantum model to the classical one.

DOI: 10.1063/1.1645650

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