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A Categorical View on Algebraic Lattices in Formal Concept Analysis
Formal concept analysis has grown from a new branch of the mathematical field
of lattice theory to a widely recognized tool in Computer Science and
elsewhere. In order to fully benefit from this theory, we believe that it can
be enriched with notions such as approximation by computation or
representability. The latter are commonly studied in denotational semantics and
domain theory and captured most prominently by the notion of algebraicity, e.g.
of lattices. In this paper, we explore the notion of algebraicity in formal
concept analysis from a category-theoretical perspective. To this end, we build
on the the notion of approximable concept with a suitable category and show
that the latter is equivalent to the category of algebraic lattices. At the
same time, the paper provides a relatively comprehensive account of the
representation theory of algebraic lattices in the framework of Stone duality,
relating well-known structures such as Scott information systems with further
formalisms from logic, topology, domains and lattice theory.Comment: 36 page
Stone-type representations and dualities for varieties of bisemilattices
In this article we will focus our attention on the variety of distributive
bisemilattices and some linguistic expansions thereof: bounded, De Morgan, and
involutive bisemilattices. After extending Balbes' representation theorem to
bounded, De Morgan, and involutive bisemilattices, we make use of Hartonas-Dunn
duality and introduce the categories of 2spaces and 2spaces. The
categories of 2spaces and 2spaces will play with respect to the
categories of distributive bisemilattices and De Morgan bisemilattices,
respectively, a role analogous to the category of Stone spaces with respect to
the category of Boolean algebras. Actually, the aim of this work is to show
that these categories are, in fact, dually equivalent
The Martin-Benito-Mena Marugan-Olmedo prescription for the Dapor-Liegener model of Loop Quantum Cosmology
Recently, an alternative Hamiltonian constraint for Loop Quantum Cosmology
has been put forward by Dapor and Liegener, inspired by previous work on
regularization due to Thiemann. Here, we quantize this Hamiltonian following a
prescription for cosmology proposed by Mart\'{\i}n-Benito, Mena Marug\'an, and
Olmedo. To this effect, we first regularize the Euclidean and Lorentzian parts
of the Hamiltonian constraint separately in the case of a Bianchi I cosmology.
This allows us to identify a natural symmetrization of the Hamiltonian which is
apparent in anisotropic scenarios. Preserving this symmetrization in isotropic
regimes, we then determine the Hamiltonian constraint corresponding to a
Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker cosmology, which we proceed to quantize.
We compute the action of this Hamiltonian operator in the volume eigenbasis and
show that it takes the form of a fourth-order difference equation, unlike in
standard Loop Quantum Cosmology, where it is known to be of second order. We
investigate the superselection sectors of our constraint operator, proving that
they are semilattices supported only on either the positive or the negative
semiaxis, depending on the triad orientation. Remarkably, the decoupling
between semiaxes allows us to write a closed expression for the generalized
eigenfunctions of the geometric part of the constraint. This expression is
totally determined by the values at the two points of the semilattice that are
closest to the origin, namely the two contributions with smallest eigenvolume.
This is in clear contrast with the situation found for the standard Hamiltonian
of Loop Quantum Cosmology, where only the smallest value is free. This result
indicates that the degeneracy of the new geometric Hamiltonian operator is
equal to two, doubling the possible number of solutions with respect to the
conventional quantization considered until now.Comment: 15 pages, published in Physical Review
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