Quantum Theory and Local Causality

Gábor Hofer-Szabó is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. His main fields of research are foundations of quantum mechanics, interpretations of probability and probabilistic causality.Péter Vecsernyés is a senior research fellow at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. His main fields of research are algebraic quantum field theory and quantum groups.

• Introduction.- What is a local physical theory?.- Relativistic locality and causality principles.- Bell's notion of local causality.- The Causal Markov Condition.- The Common Cause Principle.- Bell's inequalities.- The EPR scenario.- A noncommutative locally causal model for the EPR.- Summary and outlook.