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We introduce a category of noncommutative bundles. To establish geometry in this category we construct suitable noncommutative differential calculi on these bundles and study their basic properties. Furthermore we define the notion of a…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Markus J. Pflaum , Peter Schauenburg

We review the status of (scalar) quantum field theory on curved spacetimes using a novel formulation in terms of non linear functionals over the smooth configuration fields. In particular, this entails also a new foundation of locally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Romeo Brunetti , Klaus Fredenhagen

The constructive approach to mathematics has the advantage that witnesses can be extracted from statements of existence and theorems can be unwound to give algorithms. Even better, constructive theorems can be interpreted in any topos,…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Graham Manuell

It is well-known that biological phenomena are emergent. Emergent phenomena are quite interesting and amazing. However, they are difficult to be understood. Due to this difficulty, we propose a theory to describe emergence based on a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Giuliano Gadioli La Guardia , Pedro Jeferson Miranda

Classical mathematics (involving such notions as infinitely small/large and continuity) is usually treated as fundamental while finite mathematics is treated as inferior which is used only in special applications. We first argue that the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Felix M. Lev

We construct a diffeomorphism invariant (Colombeau-type) differential algebra canonically containing the space of distributions in the sense of L. Schwartz. Employing differential calculus in infinite dimensional (convenient) vector spaces,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eva Farkas , Michael Grosser , Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

We prove a theorem stating that any semantics can be encoded as a compositional semantics, which means that, essentially, the standard definition of compositionality is formally vacuous. We then show that when compositional semantics is…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Wlodek Zadrozny

Tangent categories provide a categorical axiomatization of the tangent bundle. There are many interesting examples and applications of tangent categories in a variety of areas such as differential geometry, algebraic geometry, algebra, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Sacha Ikonicoff , Marcello Lanfranchi , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

The purpose of this paper is to build a new bridge between category theory and a generalized probability theory known as noncommutative probability or quantum probability, which was originated as a mathematical framework for quantum theory,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Hayato Saigo

Every smooth manifold contains particles which propagate. These form objects and morphisms of a category equipped with a functor to the category of Abelian groups, turning this into a 0+1 topological field theory. We investigate the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Jean-Yves Welschinger

Interventional causal models describe several joint distributions over some variables used to describe a system, one for each intervention setting. They provide a formal recipe for how to move between the different joint distributions and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-06 Eigil F. Rischel , Sebastian Weichwald

We prove a strong non-structure theorem for a class of metric structures with an unstable pair of formulae. As a consequence, we show that weak categoricity (that is, categoricity up to isomorphisms and not isometries) implies several…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Saharon Shelah , Alexander Usvyatsov

Higher-dimensional category theory is the study of n-categories, operads, braided monoidal categories, and other such exotic structures. Although it can be treated purely as an algebraic subject, it is inherently topological in nature: the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Leinster

We give an introduction to constructive category theory by answering two guiding computational questions. The first question is: how do we compute the set of all natural transformations between two finitely presented functors like…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Sebastian Posur

The paper offers an argument against an intuitive reading of the Stone-von Neumann theorem as a categoricity result, thereby pointing out that, against what is usually taken to be the case, this theorem does not entail any model-theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Iulian D. Toader

Previous work has shown that reverse differential categories give an abstract setting for gradient-based learning of functions between Euclidean spaces. However, reverse differential categories are not suited to handle gradient-based…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Geoffrey Cruttwell , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

As David Berlinski writes (1997), the existence and nature of mathematics is a more compelling and far deeper problem than any of the problems raised by mathematics itself. Here we analyze the essence of mathematics making the main emphasis…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Mark Burgin

In this Phd. thesis, a structural analysis of construction schemes is developed. The importance of this study will be justified by constructing several distinct combinatorial objects which have been of great interest in mathematics. We then…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Jorge Antonio Cruz Chapital

Hyperspaces form a powerful tool in some branches of mathematics: lots of fractal and other geometric objects can be viewed as fixed points of some functions in suitable hyperspaces - as well as interesting classes of formal languages in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-15 René Bartsch

We define natural A_infinity-transformations and construct A_infinity-category of A_infinity-functors. The notion of non-strict units in an A_infinity-category is introduced. The 2-category of (unital) A_infinity-categories, (unital)…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-17 Volodymyr Lyubashenko