On Contextuality and Unsharp Quantum Logic

Abstract

In this paper we provide a preliminary investigation of subclasses of bounded posets with antitone involution which are “pastings” of their maximal Kleene sub-lattices. Specifically, we introduce super-paraorthomodular lattices, namely paraothomodular lattices whose order determines, and it is fully determined by, the order of their maximal Kleene sub-algebras. It will turn out that the (spectral) paraorthomodular lattice of effects over a separable Hilbert space can be considered as a prominent example of such. Therefore, it arguably provides an algebraic/order theoretical rendering of complementarity phenomena between unsharp observables. A number of examples, properties and characterization theorems for structures we deal with will be outlined. For example, we prove a forbidden configuration theorem and we investigate the notion of commutativity for modular pseudo-Kleene lattices, examples of which are (spectral) paraorthomodular lattices of effects over finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces.