ON STOCHASTIC EINSTEIN LOCALITY IN ALGEBRAIC RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM-FIELD THEORY

This paper assesses Miklos Redei's [1991] proof of the proposition that algebraic relativistic quantum field theory is stochastic Einstein local. The conclusion is that either Redei's proof is spurious, in that it does not really prove what it intends to establish, or that the proof is fallacious. The paper is self-contained in the sense that the few ingredients of algebraic quantum theory that go into Redei's proof are first summed up. Then Hellman's definition of stochastic Einstein locality is discussed, a detailed exposition is offered of Redei's proof, and finally the author's refutation is explicated.