Assumption-Free Derivation of the Bell-Type Criteria of Contextuality/Nonlocality

Abstract

Bell-type criteria of contextuality/nonlocality can be derived without any falsifiable assumptions, such as context-independent mapping (or local causality), free choice, or no-fine-tuning. This is achieved by deriving Bell-type criteria for inconsistently connected systems (i.e., those with disturbance/signaling), based on the generalized definition of contextuality in the contextuality-by-default approach, and then specializing these criteria to consistently connected systems.

Keywords

• Bell criteria
• contextuality
• context-independent mapping
• free choice
• local causality
• no-fine-tuning