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The Minkowski causal logic, which is already known to be a complete orthomodular lattice, is found to be also an atomistic and irreducible logic, but to have no other essential properties to be represented in terms of all the subspace of some Hilbert space. Alternative representation of the logic in terms of subspaces of a real vector space or of the states in terms of probability measures are suggested.
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Zecca, A. Non-standard aspects of Minkowski causal logic. Found Phys Lett 9, 295–300 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02186408
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