Some Mutant Forms of Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

We construct a ‘mutant’ form of quantum mechanics on a vector space over the finite Galois field GF(q). We find that the correlations in our model do not violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) version of Bell’s inequality, despite the fact that the predictions of this discretized quantum mechanics cannot be reproduced with any hidden variable theory. An alternative ‘mutation’ is also suggested.