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We introduce the notion of a crossed product of an algebra by a coalgebra $C$, which generalises the notion of a crossed product by a bialgebra well-studied in the theory of Hopf algebras. The result of such a crossed product is an algebra…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Tomasz Brzezinski

In a quantum world, reference frames are ultimately quantum systems too -- but what does it mean to "jump into the perspective of a quantum particle"? In this work, we show that quantum reference frame (QRF) transformations appear naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Marius Krumm , Philipp A. Hoehn , Markus P. Mueller

Reference frames are used to parameterize measurements of physical effects, but since their practical realization uses material objects, they may affect observations performed in a combined quantum state of the measured system together with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Martin Bojowald , Luis Martinez

Symmetries are a central concept in our understanding of physics. In quantum theories, a quantum reference frame (QRF) can be used to distinguish between observables related by a symmetry. The framework of operational QRFs provides a means…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Daan W. Janssen

The notion of quasicrossed product is introduced in the setting of G-graded quasialgebras, i.e., algebras endowed with a grading by a group G, satisfying a "quasiassociative" law. The equivalence between quasicrossed products and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Helena Albuquerque , Elisabete Barreiro , José M. Sánchez-Delgado

An early result of algebraic quantum field theory is that the algebra of any subregion in a QFT is a von Neumann factor of type III$_1$, in which entropy cannot be well-defined because such algebras do not admit a trace or density states.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-02 Shadi Ali Ahmad , Ro Jefferson

In a background independent theory without boundary, physical observables may be defined with respect to dynamical reference systems. However, I argue here that there may be a symmetry that exchanges the degrees of freedom of the physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-14 Lee Smolin

Recently there has been much effort in developing a quantum generalisation of reference frame transformations. Despite important progress, a complete understanding of their principles is still lacking. In particular, we argue that previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Ognyan Oreshkov

Let G be a group and let A be the algebra of complex functions on G with finite support. The product in G gives rise to a coproduct on A making it a multiplier Hopf algebra. In fact, because there exist integrals, we get an algebraic…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-02-22 L. Delvaux , A. Van Daele

The study of quantum reference frames (QRFs) is motivated by the idea of taking into account the quantum properties of the reference frames used, explicitly or implicitly, in our description of physical systems. Like classical reference…

von Neumann algebras have been playing an increasingly important role in the context of gauge theories and gravity. The crossed product presents a natural method for implementing constraints through the commutation theorem, rendering it a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Shadi Ali Ahmad , Marc S. Klinger , Simon Lin

For a given inverse semigroup S , we introduce the notion of algebraic crossed product by using a given partial action of S, and we will prove that under some condition it is associative. Also we will introduce the concept of partial…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-26 B. Tabatabaie Shourijeh , S. Moayeri Rahni

For a twisted partial action \Theta of a group G on an (associative non-necessarily unital) algebra A over a commutative unital ring k, the crossed product A X_\Theta G is proved to be associative. Given a G-graded k-algebra B =…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-03-16 M. Dokuchaev , R. Exel , J. J. Simon

Given a partial action \alpha of a group G on an associative algebra A we consider the crossed product A x_\alpha G. Using the algebras of multipliers of ideals of A we prove that A x_\alpha G is associative, provided that all ideals of A…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-03-16 M. Dokuchaev , R. Exel

The representations of the observable algebra of a low dimensional quantum field theory form the objects of a braided tensor category. The search for gauge symmetry in the theory amounts to finding an algebra which has the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Reinhard Häring

The crossed product, and consequent transition from von Neumann algebras of type III to II, is recovered from a truncation of more general gravitational dressing constructions, about certain spacetimes. This is done by extending "standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-12 Steven B. Giddings

We provide a possible fully geometric formulation of the core idea of quantum reference frames (QRFs) as it has been applied in the context of gravity, freeing its definition from unnecessary (though convenient) ingredients, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Daniel A. Turolla Vanzella , Jeremy Butterfield

Based on a recent relational formulation of quantum reference frame transformations, especially with a case of quantum spatial translations in particular, we analyzed how the `value' of an observable for a fixed state change. That is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Otto C. W. Kong

We develop an operational framework, combining relativistic quantum measurement theory with quantum reference frames (QRFs), in which local measurements of a quantum field on a background with symmetries are performed relative to a QRF.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Christopher J. Fewster , Daan W. Janssen , Leon Deryck Loveridge , Kasia Rejzner , James Waldron

We show how to equip the crossed product between a group of polynomial growth and a compact quantum metric space with a compact quantum metric space structure. When the quantum metric on the base space arises from a spectral triple, which…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Are Austad , Jens Kaad , David Kyed