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An observable on a quantum structure is any $\sigma$-homomorphism of quantum structures from the Borel $\sigma$-algebra of the real line into the quantum structure which is in our case a monotone $\sigma$-complete effect algebras with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Anatolij Dvurečenskij

We explore the possibility of replacing point set topology by higher category theory and topos theory as the foundation for quantum general relativity. We discuss the BC model and problems of its interpretation, and connect with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Louis Crane

Since the time when the first optical instruments have been invented, an idea that the visible image of an object under observation depends on tools of observation became commonly assumed in physics. A way to formalize it in mathematics is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-14 S. S. Akbarov

Recent results by Spitters et. al. suggest that quantum phase space can usefully be regarded as a ringed topos via a process called Bohrification. They show that quantum kinematics can then be interpreted as classical kinematics, internal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 Joost Nuiten

We review the problem of finding a general framework within which one can construct quantum theories of non-standard models for space, or space-time. The starting point is the observation that entities of this type can typically be regarded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 C J Isham

Topos theory, a branch of category theory, has been proposed as mathematical basis for the formulation of physical theories. In this article, we give a brief introduction to this approach, emphasising the logical aspects. Each topos serves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Doering

The standard formulation of quantum theory relies on a fixed space-time metric determining the localisation and causal order of events. In general relativity, the metric is influenced by matter, and is expected to become indefinite when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Flaminia Giacomini , Alessio Belenchia , Časlav Brukner

A reference frame F is described by the element g of the Poincare' group P which connects F with a given fixed frame F_0. If F is a quantum frame, defined by a physical object following the laws of quantum physics, the parameters of g have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Mazzucchi

The quantum reference frames program is based on the idea that reference frames should be treated as quantum physical systems. In this work, we combine these insights with the emphasis on operationality, understood as refraining from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Jan Głowacki

The fundamental algebraic concepts of quantum mechanics, as expressed by many authors, are reviewed and translated into the framework of the relatively new non-distributive system of Boolean fractions (also called conditional events or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip G. Calabrese

A quantum picture of the causal structure of Minkowski space M is presented. The mathematical model employed to this end is a non-classical version of the classical topos {H} of real quaternion algebras used elsewhere to organize the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Raptis

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

We develop a notion of quantum observable for the general boundary formulation of quantum theory. This notion is adapted to spacetime regions rather than to hypersurfaces and naturally fits into the topological quantum field theory like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-06 Robert Oeckl

This paper shows that quantization induces a Lawvere-Tierney topology on (hence, a sheaf topos in) the quantum topos. We show that a quantization map from classical observables to self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space naturally induces…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-25 Kunji Nakayama

We present Temporal and Object Quantification Networks (TOQ-Nets), a new class of neuro-symbolic networks with a structural bias that enables them to learn to recognize complex relational-temporal events. This is done by including reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Jiayuan Mao , Zhezheng Luo , Chuang Gan , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomer D. Ullman

Locales have been studied as "topologies without points", mainly by tools of category theory. While traditional topology presents a space as a set of points with specified neighborhoods, localic topology presents a space as a lattice of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Dusko Pavlovic

Quantum gauge theory in the connection representation uses functions of holonomies as configuration observables. Physical observables (gauge and diffeomorphism invariant) are represented in the Hilbert space of physical states; physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Jose A. Zapata

These lecture notes cover 13 sessions and are presented as an e-print, intended to evolve over time. Quantum invariants do more than distinguish topological objects; they build bridges between topology, algebra, number theory and quantum…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Daniel Tubbenhauer

Quantitative entanglement witnesses allow one to bound the entanglement present in a system by acquiring a single expectation value. In this paper we analyze a special class of such observables which are associated with (generalized) Werner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-14 Pietro Silvi , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti

The measurement process is considered for quantum field theory on curved spacetimes. Measurements are carried out on one QFT, the "system", using another, the "probe" via a dynamical coupling of "system" and "probe" in a bounded spacetime…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Christopher J. Fewster , Rainer Verch