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We present a novel proof technique to construct the Gelfand-Fuks spectral sequence for diagonal Chevalley-Eilenberg cohomology of vector fields on a smooth manifold, performing a local-to-global analysis through a notion of generalized good…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Lukas Miaskiwskyi

For any topological space there is a sheaf cohomology. A Grothendieck topology is a generalization of the classical topology such that it also possesses a sheaf cohomology. On the other hand any noncommutative $C^*$-algebra is a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Petr R. Ivankov

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

C*-algebras are widely used in mathematical physics to represent the observables of physical systems, and are sometimes taken as the starting point for rigorous formulations of quantum mechanics and classical statistical mechanics.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Miguel Carrion-Alvarez

The purpose of this note is to complete the interesting review on quantum contextuality [1] that appeared recently. In particular we will introduce and discuss the ideas of extracontextuality and extravalence, that allow one to relate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Philippe Grangier

A set of quantum data can look classical in every local test and still fail to admit a single classical explanation of the whole composite system. We formulate this failure as global contextuality. Here global means global in the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ming Yang

The Kochen-Specker theorem shows that it is impossible to assign sharp values to all dynamical variables in quantum mechanics in such a way that the algebraic relations among the values of dynamical variables whose self-adjoint operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Simon Friederich , Mritunjay Tyagi

Contextuality is a key feature of quantum mechanics that provides an important non-classical resource for quantum information and computation. Abramsky and Brandenburger used sheaf theory to give a general treatment of contextuality in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Samson Abramsky , Rui Soares Barbosa , Kohei Kishida , Raymond Lal , Shane Mansfield

In the paper, a value assignment for projection operators relating to a quantum system is equated with assignment of truth-values to the propositions associated with these operators. In consequence, the Kochen-Specker theorem (its localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Arkady Bolotin

Fully revealing the mathmatical structure of quantum contextuality is a significant task, while some known contextuality theories are only applicable for rank-1 projectors. That is because they adopt the observable-based definitions. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Songyi Liu , Yongjun Wang , Baoshan Wang , Yunyi Jia

Quantum contextuality plays a significant role in supporting quantum computation and quantum information theory. The key tools for this are the Kochen--Specker and non-Kochen--Specker contextual sets. Traditionally, their representation has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Mladen Pavicic

The problem of introducing a dependence of elements of quantum group on classical parameters is considered. It is suggested to interpret a homomorphism from the algebra of functions on quantum group to the algebra of sections of a sheaf of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 I. Volovich

In the setting of C*-categories, we provide a definition of "spectrum" of a commutative full C*-category as a one-dimensional unital saturated Fell bundle over a suitable groupoid (equivalence relation) and prove a categorical Gelfand…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Paolo Bertozzini , Roberto Conti , Wicharn Lewkeeratiyutkul

Gelfand - Na\u{i}mark theorem supplies contravariant functor from a category of commutative $C^*-$ algebras to a category of locally compact Hausdorff spaces. Therefore any commutative $C^*-$ algebra is an alternative representation of a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Petr R. Ivankov

Isham's topos-theoretic perspective on the logic of the consistent-histories theory is extended in two ways. First, the presheaves of consistent sets of history propositions in the topos proposed by Isham are endowed with a Vietoris-type of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Raptis

We discuss the notion of spectral synthesis for the setting of Quantum Harmonic Analysis. Using these concepts, we study subalgebras of the full Toeplitz algebra with certain invariant symbols and their commutators. In particular, we find a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Robert Fulsche , Miguel Angel Rodriguez Rodriguez

We consider some generalization of the theory of quantum states, which is based on the analysis of long standing problems and unsatisfactory situation with the possible interpretations of quantum mechanics. We demonstrate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin

Quantum contextuality supports quantum computation and communication. One of its main vehicles is hypergraphs. The most elaborated are the Kochen-Specker ones, but there is also another class of contextual sets that are not of this kind.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Mladen Pavicic

Presheaf models provide a formulation of labelled transition systems that is useful for, among other things, modelling concurrent computation. This paper aims to extend such models further to represent stochastic dynamics such as shown in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Kohei Kishida

The Kochen-Specker Theorem is widely interpreted to imply that non-contextual hidden variable theories that agree with the predictions of Copenhagen quantum mechanics are impossible. The import of the theorem for a novel observer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-19 Fay Dowker , Yousef Ghazi-Tabatabai