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We extend the usual internal logic of a (pre)topos to a more general interpretation, called the stack semantics, which allows for "unbounded" quantifiers ranging over the class of objects of the topos. Using well-founded relations inside…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-23 Michael A. Shulman

This paper is the third in a series whose goal is to develop a fundamentally new way of viewing theories of physics. Our basic contention is that constructing a theory of physics is equivalent to finding a representation in a topos of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Doering , C. J. Isham

We firstly introduce some key concepts in category theory, such as quotient category, completion of limits, $\mathrm{Mor}$ category, and so on; then give the concept of topology algebras and sheaves, and discuss how to restore the structue…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Dezhao Zhang

This thesis is about the problem of compositionality in distributional semantics. Distributional semantics presupposes that the meanings of words are a function of their occurrences in textual contexts. It models words as distributions over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Edward Grefenstette

We revisit our earlier work on the representation of quantum systems as Chu spaces, and investigate the use of coalgebra as an alternative framework. On the one hand, coalgebras allow the dynamics of repeated measurement to be captured, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-22 Samson Abramsky

The paper introduces a novel framework based on category theory to enhance the explainability of artificial intelligence systems, particularly focusing on word embeddings. Key topics include the construction of categories $\mathcal{L}_T$…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ares Fabregat-Hernández , Javier Palanca , Vicent Botti

A decade ago, Isham and Butterfield proposed a topos-theoretic approach to quantum mechanics, which meanwhile has been extended by Doering and Isham so as to provide a new mathematical foundation for all of physics. Last year, three of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-12 Martijn Caspers , Chris Heunen , Nicolaas P. Landsman , Bas Spitters

We propose a semantic foundation for logics for reasoning in settings that possess a distinction between equality of variables, a coarser equivalence of variables, and a notion of conditional independence between variables. We show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Alex Simpson

Quantified Boolean logic results from adding operators to Boolean logic for existentially and universally quantifying variables. This extends the reach of Boolean logic by enabling a variety of applications that have been explored over the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Adnan Darwiche , Pierre Marquis

In this paper, we introduce a new definition of sheaves on semicartesian quantales, providing first examples and categorical properties. We note that our sheaves are similar to the standard definition of a sheaf on a locale, however, we…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Ana Luiza Tenório , Caio de Andrade Mendes , Hugo Luiz Mariano

In the present paper we propose a new approach to quantum fields in terms of category algebras and states on categories. We define quantum fields and their states as category algebras and states on causal categories with partial involution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Hayato Saigo

Based on the Sheaf Logic approach to set theoretic forcing, a hierarchy of Quantum Variable Sets is constructed which generalizes and simplifies the analogous construction developed by Takeuti on boolean valued models of set theory. Over…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-08 J. Benavides

Classical planning representation languages based on first-order logic have preliminarily been used to model and solve robotic task planning problems. Wider adoption of these representation languages, however, is hindered by the limitations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Angeline Aguinaldo , Evan Patterson , James Fairbanks , William Regli , Jaime Ruiz

In a previous paper, we have proposed assigning as the value of a physical quantity in quantum theory, a certain kind of set (a sieve) of quantities that are functions of the given quantity. The motivation was in part physical---such a…

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

Prior work has shown that coupling sequential latent variable models with semantic ontological knowledge can improve the representational capabilities of event modeling approaches. In this work, we present a novel, doubly hierarchical,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shubhashis Roy Dipta , Mehdi Rezaee , Francis Ferraro

The so-called topos approach provides a radical reformulation of quantum theory. Structurally, quantum theory in the topos formulation is very similar to classical physics. There is a state object, analogous to the state space of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Andreas Doering , Rui Soares Barbosa

This paper is the fourth in a series whose goal is to develop a fundamentally new way of building theories of physics. The motivation comes from a desire to address certain deep issues that arise in the quantum theory of gravity. Our basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Doering , C. J. Isham

An introduction is given to an algebraic formulation and generalisation of the consistent histories approach to quantum theory. The main technical tool in this theory is an orthoalgebra of history propositions that serves as a generalised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C J Isham

The goal of this paper is to summarise the first steps in developing a fundamentally new way of constructing theories of physics. The motivation comes from a desire to address certain deep issues that arise when contemplating quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Doering , Chris Isham

This paper is the first in a series whose goal is to develop a fundamentally new way of constructing theories of physics. The motivation comes from a desire to address certain deep issues that arise when contemplating quantum theories of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Doering , C. J. Isham