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I explain the difficulty of making various concepts of and relating to probability precise, rigorous and physically significant when attempting to apply them in reasoning about objects (e.g., spacetimes) living in infinite-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-08 Erik Curiel

We study the probability measure on the space of density matrices induced by the metric defined by using superfidelity. We give the formula for the probability density of eigenvalues. We also study some statistical properties of the set of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-14 Zbigniew Puchała , Jarosław Adam Miszczak

The Born probability measure describes the statistics of measurements in which observers self-locate themselves in some region of reality. In $\psi$-ontic quantum theories, reality is directly represented by the wavefunction. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Michael Ridley

A point process on a space is a random bag of elements of that space. In this paper we explore programming with point processes in a monadic style. To this end we identify point processes on a space X with probability measures of bags of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Swaraj Dash , Sam Staton

Probability metrics constitute an important tool in probability theory and statistics \cite{DKS91}, \cite{R91}, \cite{Z83} as they are specific metrics on spaces of random variables which, by satisfying an extra condition, concord well with…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Ben Berckmoes , Bob Lowen

We introduce dicodensity monads: a generalisation of pointwise codensity monads generated by functors to monads generated by mixed-variant bifunctors. Our construction is based on the notion of strong dinaturality (also known as Barr…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Maciej Piróg , Filip Sieczkowski

One way of interpreting a left Kan extension is as taking a kind of "partial colimit", whereby one replaces parts of a diagram by their colimits. We make this intuition precise by means of the "partial evaluations" sitting in the so-called…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Paolo Perrone , Walter Tholen

We investigate the possibility of replacing the topology of convergence in probability with convergence in $L^1$. A characterization of continuous linear functionals on the space of measurable functions is also obtained.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Gianluca Cassese

Generalized metric spaces are obtained by weakening the requirements (e.g., symmetry) on the distance function and by allowing it to take values in structures (e.g., quantales) that are more general than the set of non-negative real…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Francesco Dagnino , Amin Farjudian , Eugenio Moggi

We analyze the notion that physical theories are quantitative and testable by observations in experiments. This leads us to propose a new, Bayesian, interpretation of probabilities in physics that unifies their current use in classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francis G. Perey

Two very basic constructions involving experimental procedures are the formation of coarse-grained versions of experiments, and the formation of branching sequential experiments. The latter allow for the conditioning of states on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Alex Wilce

This paper concerns a stochastic construction of probabilistic coherent spaces by employing novel ingredients (i) linear exponential comonads arising properly in the measure-theory (ii) continuous orthogonality between measures and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Masahiro Hamano

Codensity monads provide a universal method to generate complex monads from simple functors. Recently, a wide range of important monads in logic, denotational semantics, and probabilistic computation, such as several incarnations of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fabian Lenke , Nico Wittrock , Stefan Milius , Henning Urbat

We present an approach to measure theory using the theory of locales. This includes concrete constructions of measure algebras associated to Radon measures, such as the Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{R}^n$, via Grothendieck topologies…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Georg Lehner

This paper is one in a series that investigates topological measures on locally compact spaces. A topological measure is a set function which is finitely additive on the collection of open and compact sets, inner regular on open sets, and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Svetlana V. Butler

The general notion of a stochastic ordering is that one probability distribution is smaller than a second one if the second attaches more probability to higher values than the first. Motivated by recent work on barycentric maps on spaces of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Fumio Hiai , Jimmie Lawson , Yongdo Lim

The aim of this paper is to present some properties of Choquet maximal Radon probability measures on compact, convex subsets of Hausdorff, locally convex, topological real vector spaces. Theorem 3.12 is the main result of the paper. While…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Silviu Teleman

Borel probability measures living on metric spaces are fundamental mathematical objects. There are several meaningful distance functions that make the collection of the probability measures living on a certain space a metric space. We are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Dániel Virosztek

Finite frames can be viewed as mass points distributed in $N$-dimensional Euclidean space. As such they form a subclass of a larger and rich class of probability measures that we call probabilistic frames. We derive the basic properties of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Martin Ehler , Kasso A. Okoudjou

Persistence diagrams are common descriptors of the topological structure of data appearing in various classification and regression tasks. They can be generalized to Radon measures supported on the birth-death plane and endowed with an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Alex Elchesen , Iryna Hartsock , Jose A. Perea , Tatum Rask