Abstract
Some algebraic invariants associated with Bell's inequalities are defined for inclusions of von Neumann algebras and studied within the context of general algebraic quantum theory. More special results are proven for quantum field theory which establish that these invariants take infinitely many values. Sharp short-distance bounds on the Bell correlations are also demonstrated in the context of relativistic quantum field theory.
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