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We develop further the algebra of cospans and spans of graphs introduced by Katis, Sabadini and Walters for the sequential and parallel composition of processes, adding here data types.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-24 L. de Francesco Albasini , N. Sabadini , R. F. C. Walters

This is an overview of double categories of "open systems": systems that can interact with their environment. We focus on the variable sharing paradigm, where we compose open systems by identifying variables. This paradigm is often…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 John C. Baez

Structures where we have both a contravariant (pullback) and a covariant (pushforward) functoriality that satisfy base change can be encoded by functors out of ($\infty$-)categories of spans (or correspondences). In this paper we study the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Elden Elmanto , Rune Haugseng

In this note we define a process algebra TCP (Truly Concurrent Processes) which corresponds closely with the automata model of concurrency based on Span(RGraph), the category of spans of reflexive graphs. In TCP, each process has a fixed…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-28 P. Katis , N. Sabadini , R. F. C. Walters

The notion and theory of the quantum space of all maps from a quantum space pioneered by So{\l}tan have been mainly focused on finite-dimensional C*-algebras which are matrix algebra bundles over a finite set $S$. We propose a modification…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Albert Jeu-Liang Sheu , Thomas Timmermann

We demonstrate that a large class of one-dimensional quantum and classical exchange models can be described by the same type of graphs, namely Cayley graphs of the permutation group. Their well-studied spectral properties allow us to derive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-02 Jean Decamp , Jiangbin Gong , Huanqian Loh , Christian Miniatura

Scott's graph model is a lambda-algebra based on the observation that continuous endofunctions on the lattice of sets of natural numbers can be represented via their graphs. A graph is a relation mapping finite sets of input values to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Guy McCusker

In a bicategory of spans (an example of a 'generic bicategory') the factorization of a span (s,t) as the span (s,1) followed by (1,t) satisfies a simple universal property with respect to all factorizations in terms of the generic…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Charles Walker

Labeled transition systems are typically used to represent the behavior of nondeterministic processes, with labeled transitions defining a one-step state to-state reachability relation. This model has been recently made more general by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-10 Marco Bernardo , Rocco De Nicola , Michele Loreti

We consider the ordinary category Span(C) of (isomorphism classes of) spans of morphisms in a category C with finite limits as needed, composed horizontally via pullback, and give a general criterion for a quotient of Span(C) to be an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-10 S. Naser Hosseini , Amir R. Shir Ali Nasab , Walter Tholen , Leila Yeganeh

Given two nonlinear input-output systems written in terms of Chen-Fliess functional expansions, it is known that the feedback interconnected system is always well defined and in the same class. An explicit formula for the generating series…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-28 W. Steven Gray , Luis A. Duffaut Espinosa , Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard

We introduce the concept of TRAP (Traces and Permutations), which can roughly be viewed as a wheeled PROP (Products and Permutations) without unit. TRAPs are equipped with a horizontal concatenation and partial trace maps. Continuous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Pierre J. Clavier , Loïc Foissy , Sylvie Paycha

The quantum inspired State Context Property (SCOP) theory of concepts is unique amongst theories of concepts in offering a means of incorporating that for each concept in each different context there are an unlimited number of exemplars, or…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-31 Tomas Veloz , Liane Gabora , Mark Eyjolfson , Diederik Aerts

We shift the paradigm of feedback control from the control of quantum states to the control of phase transitions in quantum systems. We show that feedback allows tuning the universality class of phase transitions via modifying its critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 D. A. Ivanov , T. Yu. Ivanova , S. F. Caballero-Benitez , I. B. Mekhov

Span categories provide an abstract framework for formalizing mathematical models of certain systems. The mathematical descriptions of some systems, such as classical mechanical systems, require categories that do not have pullbacks, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-22 David Weisbart , Adam Yassine

Canonical forms are central to the analytical understanding of tensor network states, underpinning key results such as the complete classification of one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phases within the matrix product state…

For a general class of dynamical systems (of which the canonical continuous and uniform discrete versions are but special cases), we prove that there is a state feedback gain such that the resulting closed-loop system is uniformly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-19 Billy J. Jackson , John M. Davis , Ian A. Gravagne , Robert J. Marks

We develop a version of quantum mechanics that can handle nonassociative algebras of observables and which reduces to standard quantum theory in the traditional associative setting. Our algebraic approach is naturally probabilistic and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Peter Schupp , Richard J. Szabo

Quantum computing offers advantages over classical computation, yet the precise features that set the two apart remain unclear. In the standard quantum circuit model, adding a 1-qubit basis-changing gate -- commonly chosen to be the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Wang Fang , Chris Heunen , Robin Kaarsgaard

Simulating physical systems on near-term quantum computers often requires preparing states within constrained subspaces, like those with fixed particle number or spin. We use Lie algebraic techniques to prove that hardware-efficient gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Andreas Stergiou , Nicolas PD Sawaya
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