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Dagger categories are an essential tool for categorical descriptions of quantum physics, for example in categorical quantum mechanics and unitary topological field theory. Their definition however is in tension with the ``principle of…

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The orbifold/condensation completion procedure of defect topological quantum field theories can be seen as carrying out a lattice or state sum model construction internal to an ambient theory. In this paper, we propose a conceptual…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Nils Carqueville , Tim Lüders

The compactness phenomenon is one of the featured aspects of structuralism in mathematics. In simple and broad words, a compactness property holds in a structure if a related property is satisfied by sufficiently many substructures of that…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Rahman Mohammadpour

A quantum set is defined to be simply a set of nonzero finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Together with binary relations, essentially the quantum relations of Weaver, quantum sets form a dagger compact category. Functions between quantum…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Andre Kornell

In this paper, we extend past work done on the application of the mathematics of category theory to quantum information science. Specifically, we present a realization of a dagger-compact category that can model finite-dimensional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Ville Bergholm , Jacob D. Biamonte

Let $k$ be a field. We characterize the group schemes $G$ over $k$, not necessarily affine, such that $\mathsf{D}_{\mathrm{qc}}(B_kG)$ is compactly generated. We also describe the algebraic stacks that have finite cohomological dimension in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Jack Hall , David Rydh

In various subjects, there exist compact and consistent relationships between input and output parameters. Discovering the relationships, or namely compact laws, in a data set is of great interest in many fields, such as physics, chemistry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Wenqing Xu , Mark Stalzer

We show that either of the two reasonable choices for the category of compact quantum groups is nice enough to allow for a plethora of universal constructions, all obtained "by abstract nonsense" via the adjoint functor theorem. This…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Alexandru Chirvasitu

Idempotent states on a compact quantum group are shown to yield group-like projections in the multiplier algebra of the dual discrete quantum group. This allows to deduce that every idempotent state on a finite quantum group arises in a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-09-04 Uwe Franz , Adam Skalski

Compact sets in constructive mathematics capture our intuition of what computable subsets of the plane (or any other complete metric space) ought to be. A good representation of compact sets provides an efficient means of creating and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-04 Russell O'Connor

We propose a notion of state distinguishability that does not refer to probabilities, but rather to the ability of a set of states to serve as programs for a desired set of gates. Using this notion, we reconstruct the structural features of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Giulio Chiribella

We propose a definition of purity for positive linear maps between Euclidean Jordan Algebras (EJA) that generalizes the notion of purity for quantum systems. We show that this definition of purity is closed under composition and taking…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Abraham Westerbaan , Bas Westerbaan , John van de Wetering

Compact categories have lately seen renewed interest via applications to quantum physics. Being essentially finite-dimensional, they cannot accomodate (co)limit-based constructions. For example, they cannot capture protocols such as quantum…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Chris Heunen

A system's apparent simplicity depends on whether it is represented classically or quantally. This is not so surprising, as classical and quantum physics are descriptive frameworks built on different assumptions that capture, emphasize, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Cina Aghamohammadi , John R. Mahoney , James P. Crutchfield

Contraction theory is a mathematical framework for studying the convergence, robustness, and modularity properties of dynamical systems and algorithms. In this opinion paper, we provide five main opinions on the virtues of contraction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Alexander Davydov , Francesco Bullo

Some aspects of basic category theory are developed in a finitely complete category $\C$, endowed with two factorization systems which determine the same discrete objects and are linked by a simple reciprocal stability law. Resting on this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-06 Claudio Pisani

This paper shows that a large class of fading memory state-space systems driven by discrete-time observations of dynamical systems defined on compact manifolds always yields continuously differentiable synchronizations. This general result…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Lyudmila Grigoryeva , Allen Hart , Juan-Pablo Ortega

Organising the relevant literature and by letting statistical convergence play the main role in the theory of compactness, a variant of compactness called statistical compactness has been achieved. As in case of sequential compactness, one…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Manoranjan Singha , Ujjal Kumar Hom

Categorification is the process of finding category-theoretic analogs of set-theoretic concepts by replacing sets with categories, functions with functors, and equations between functions by natural isomorphisms between functors, which in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-11-18 John C. Baez , James Dolan

The study of complex systems through the lens of category theory consistently proves to be a powerful approach. We propose that cognition deserves the same category-theoretic treatment. We show that by considering a highly-compact cognitive…

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