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Bohrification of local nets of observables

Mathematical Physics 2011-09-08 v1 Algebraic Topology Category Theory math.MP

Abstract

Recent results by Spitters et. al. suggest that quantum phase space can usefully be regarded as a ringed topos via a process called Bohrification. They show that quantum kinematics can then be interpreted as classical kinematics, internal to this ringed topos. We extend these ideas from quantum mechanics to algebraic quantum field theory: from a net of observables we construct a presheaf of quantum phase spaces. We can then naturally express the causal locality of the net as a descent condition on the corresponding presheaf of ringed toposes: we show that the net of observables is local, precisely when the presheaf of ringed toposes satisfies descent by a local geometric morphism.

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@article{arxiv.1109.1397,
  title  = {Bohrification of local nets of observables},
  author = {Joost Nuiten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1397},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

40 pages. This is the author's Bachelor thesis