Observables on $\sigma $-MV algebras and $\sigma $-lattice effect algebras
Anna Jenčová, Silvia Pulmannová, Elena Vinceková · Czech digital mathematics library · 2011
summary:Effect algebras were introduced as abstract models of the set of quantum effects which represent sharp and unsharp properties of physical systems and play a basic role in the foundations of quantum mechanics. In the present paper, observables on lattice ordered $\sigma$-effect algebras and their “smearings” with respect to (weak) Markov kernels are studied. It is shown that the range of any observable is contained in a block, which is a $\sigma$-MV algebra, and every observable is defined by a smearing of a sharp observable, which is obtained from generalized Loomis-Sikorski theorem for $\sigma$-MV algebras. Generalized observables with the range in the set of sharp real observables are studied and it is shown that they contain all smearings of observables.