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The purpose of this paper is to extend Bell's inequalities to obtain some general necessary conditions for the existence of a joint probability distribution for any finite collection of Bell-type random variables. Our results show that forN > 4 many new elementary inequalities beyond those of Bell must be satisfied by any hidden variable theory.
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Suppes, P., Zanotti, M. New Bell-type inequalities forN > 4 necessary for existence of a hidden variable. Found Phys Lett 4, 101–107 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00666420
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