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Every partial algebra is the colimit of its total subalgebras. We prove this result for partial Boolean algebras (including orthomodular lattices) and the new notion of partial C*-algebras (including noncommutative C*-algebras), and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-05 Benno van den Berg , Chris Heunen

We extend the topos-theoretic treatment given in previous papers of assigning values to quantities in quantum theory, and of related issues such as the Kochen-Specker theorem. This extension has two main parts: the use of von Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Hamilton , C. J. Isham , J. Butterfield

We use strong complementarity to introduce dynamics and symmetries within the framework of CQM, which we also extend to infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces: these were long-missing features, which open the way to a wealth of new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Stefano Gogioso

Quantum implication algebras without complementation are formulated with the same axioms for all five quantum implications. Previous formulations of orthoimplication, orthomodular implication, and quasi-implication algebras are analysed and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norman D. Megill , Mladen Pavicic

A general notion of a quasi-finite algebra is introduced as an algebra graded by the set of all integers equipped with topologies on the homogeneous subspaces satisfying certain properties. An analogue of the regular bimodule is introduced…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Matsuo , Kiyokazu Nagatomo , Akihiro Tsuchiya

Quantum logic aims to capture essential quantum mechanical structure in order-theoretic terms. The Achilles' heel of quantum logic is the absence of a canonical description of composite systems, given descriptions of their components. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 Bob Coecke , Chris Heunen , Aleks Kissinger

We provide a universal construction of the category of finite-dimensional C*-algebras and completely positive trace-nonincreasing maps from the rig category of finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces and unitaries. This construction, which can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Pablo Andrés-MartíÂ-nez , Chris Heunen , Robin Kaarsgaard

The Hermiticity condition in quantum mechanics required for the characterisation of (a) physical observables and (b) generators of unitary motions can be relaxed into a wider class of operators whose eigenvalues are real and whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Dorje C. Brody

A metaphor of Loday describes Lie, associative, and commutative associative algebras as ``the three graces'' of the operad theory. In this article, we study the three graces in the category of $\mathfrak{sl}_2$-modules that are sums of…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Vladimir Dotsenko , Iryna Kashuba

The concept of complementability is extended from bounded operators to densely defined operators on Hilbert spaces. By introducing appropriate projections and decomposition techniques, a framework is developed for analyzing…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Sachin Manjunath Naik , P. Sam Johnson

Algebraic quantum field theory, or AQFT for short, is a rigorous analysis of the structure of relativistic quantum mechanics. It is formulated in terms of a net of operator algebras indexed by regions of a Lorentzian manifold. In several…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 H Freytes

It is shown how nonlinear versions of quantum mechanics can be refolmulated in terms of a (linear) C*-algebraic theory. Then also their symmetries are described as automorphisms of the correspondong C*-algebra. The requirement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Pavel Bona

We study and relate categories of modules, comodules and contramodules over a representation of a small category taking values in (co)algebras, in a manner similar to modules over a ringed space. As a result, we obtain a categorical…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Mamta Balodi , Abhishek Banerjee , Samarpita Ray

We provide axioms that guarantee a category is equivalent to that of continuous linear functions between Hilbert spaces. The axioms are purely categorical and do not presuppose any analytical structure. This addresses a question about the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Chris Heunen , Andre Kornell

We discuss generalizations of the notion of i) the group of unitary elements of a (real or complex) finite dimensional C*-algebra, ii) gauge transformations and iii) (real) automorphisms, in the framework of compact quantum group theory and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-10-13 Jyotishman Bhowmick , Francesco D'Andrea , Biswarup Das , Ludwik Dabrowski

Quantum homogeneous supervector bundles arising from the quantum general linear supergoup are studied. The space of holomorphic sections is promoted to a left exact covariant functor from a category of modules over a quantum parabolic…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. B. Zhang

Within the unified framework of exploiting the relative entropy as a distance measure of quantum correlations, we make explicit the hierarchical structure of quantum coherence, quantum discord and quantum entanglement in multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Yao Yao , Xing Xiao , Li Ge , C. P. Sun

The purpose of this paper is to show that the mathematics of quantum mechanics (QM) is the mathematics of set partitions (which specify indefiniteness and definiteness) linearized to vector spaces, particularly in Hilbert spaces. That is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 David Ellerman

A compatible $L_\infty$-algebra is a graded vector space together with two compatible $L_\infty$-algebra structures on it. Given a graded vector space, we construct a graded Lie algebra whose Maurer-Cartan elements are precisely compatible…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Apurba Das

This thesis provides an introduction to the various category theory ideas employed in topological quantum field theory. These theories are viewed as symmetric monoidal functors from topological cobordism categories into the category of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bruce H. Bartlett