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Being mathematics a natural language to Mankind and to physics, it must be constantly adapted to our necessities and our natural perception. Then, mathematical concepts are not absolute to reality. Although mathematical theories are…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauricio Ayala

We lay the groundwork for a formal framework that studies scientific theories and can serve as a unified foundation for the different theories within physics. We define a scientific theory as a set of verifiable statements, assertions that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Gabriele Carcassi , Christine A. Aidala

We study in this paper different topos-theoretical approaches to the problem of construction of General Theory of Relativity. In general case the resulting space-time theory will be non-classical, different from that of the usual Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexandr K. Guts , Egor B. Grinkevich

Topoi are categories which have enough structure to interpret higher order logic. They admit two notions of morphism: logical morphisms which preserve all of the structure and therefore the interpretation of higher order logic, and…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-05-15 Shawn J. Henry

The topos approach to the formulation of physical theories includes a new form of quantum logic. We present this topos quantum logic, including some new results, and compare it to standard quantum logic, all with an eye to conceptual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Andreas Doering

What is the role of topos theory in the topos models for quantum theory as used by Isham, Butterfield, Doring, Heunen, Landsman, Spitters and others? In other words, what is the interplay between physical motivation for the models and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sander A. M. Wolters

We introduce judgemental theories and their calculi as a general framework to present and study deductive systems. As an exemplification of their expressivity, we approach dependent type theory and natural deduction as special kinds of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Greta Coraglia , Ivan Di Liberti

We study the topology associated with physical vector and scalar fields. A mathematical object, e.g., a ball, can be continuously deformed, without tearing or gluing, to make other topologically equivalent objects, e.g., a cube or a solid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-12 Amir Jafari , Ethan Vishniac

We present an abstract unifying framework for interpreting Stone-type dualities; several known dualities are seen to be instances of just one topos-theoretic phenomenon, and new dualities are introduced. In fact, infinitely many new…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Olivia Caramello

Underlying any theory of physics is a layer of conceptual frames. They connect the mathematical structures used in theoretical models with physical phenomena, but they also constitute our fundamental assumptions about reality. Many of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-01 Thomas Filk , Albrecht von Mueller

This work aims to formalize some of the ways scientific concepts are formed in the process of theoretical physics discovery. Since this may at first seem like a task beyond the scope of the exact sciences (natural and formal sciences), we…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Omar Aguilar , Anthony Aguirre

The theory of quantum mechanics is examined using non-standard real numbers, called quantum real numbers (qr-numbers), that are constructed from standard Hilbert space entities. Our goal is to resolve some of the paradoxical features of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 John V Corbett

In this thesis we use the language of sheaf theory in order to develop a deeper understanding of some of the fundamental differences - such as entanglement, contextuality and non-locality - between quantum and classical physics. We first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Carmen Maria Constantin

"Quantum Topology" deals with the general quantum theory as the theory of the functional quantum space; space time and energy momentum forms form a connected manifold; a functional quantum space on the quantum level. The general quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Diaa A Ahmed

This book introduces a temporal type theory, the first of its kind as far as we know. It is based on a standard core, and as such it can be formalized in a proof assistant such as Coq or Lean by adding a number of axioms. Well-known…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Patrick Schultz , David I. Spivak

Topos theory has been suggested first by Isham and Butterfield, and then by Isham and Doering, as an alternative mathematical structure within which to formulate physical theories. In particular, it has been used to reformulate standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 Wilson Brenna , Cecilia Flori

This is the first of a series of papers that we intend to publish about the epistemology of fundamental physics in its current state. One of the main objectives of these papers is to improve our understanding of fundamental physics (and…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Taha Sochi

This work is a conceptual analysis of certain recent developments in the mathematical foundations of Classical and Quantum Mechanics which have allowed to formulate both theories in a common language. From the algebraic point of view, the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 Federico Zalamea

The study of homotopy theoretic phenomena in the language of type theory is sometimes loosely called `synthetic homotopy theory'. Homotopy theory in type theory is only one of the many aspects of homotopy type theory, which also includes…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Egbert Rijke

A description of physical reality in which wholeness is the foundation is discussed along with the motivation for such an attempt. As a possible mathematical framework within which a physical theory based on wholeness may be expressed,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Barbara Piechocinska