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Bell, Spinors, and the Impossibility of a Classical Spin-Vector Model

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Authors: G. A. Koroteev

Year

2025

Paper ID

36640

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Preprint

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We revisit the Bell--CHSH scenario for two spin-tfrac{1}{2} particles and isolate the precise algebraic origin of the Bell contradiction. On the quantum side, spin-tfrac{1}{2} is described by a noncommutative spinor (Clifford) algebra acting on the Hilbert space of two spin-tfrac{1}{2} particles, with the singlet state yielding the usual correlation E(a,b) = - acdot b and Tsirelson's bound 2sqrt{2}. On the classical side, the standard Bell assumptions amount to describing all measurement outcomes as \{pm1\}-valued random variables on a single Kolmogorov probability space, i.e.\ elements of a commutative algebra mathcal{C}(Λ). We show that there is no representation of the spinor algebra of spin-tfrac{1}{2} (with its singlet state and locality structure) into any such commutative Kolmogorov algebra that preserves the \{pm1\} spectra of local spin components and the singlet correlations entering the CHSH expression, under the standard Bell assumptions of locality (factorization) and measurement independence. In this sense, the Bell--CHSH contradiction is exhibited as an algebraic mismatch between a noncommutative spinor/Clifford description of spin and the classical assumption of a single global Kolmogorov space supporting all outcomes. In the language of quantum probability, this is a C^*-algebraic reformulation of the known fact that the singlet correlations admit no local hidden-variable model with jointly distributed outcomes on one probability space. We also give an explicit realization of the same spinor structure within the author's Quantum Index Algebra (QIA) framework, where locality appears as disjoint index slots and the singlet state as a simple index cocycle.

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