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New Directions in Categorical Logic, for Classical, Probabilistic and Quantum Logic
Intuitionistic logic, in which the double negation law not-not-P = P fails,
is dominant in categorical logic, notably in topos theory. This paper follows a
different direction in which double negation does hold. The algebraic notions
of effect algebra/module that emerged in theoretical physics form the
cornerstone. It is shown that under mild conditions on a category, its maps of
the form X -> 1+1 carry such effect module structure, and can be used as
predicates. Predicates are identified in many different situations, and capture
for instance ordinary subsets, fuzzy predicates in a probabilistic setting,
idempotents in a ring, and effects (positive elements below the unit) in a
C*-algebra or Hilbert space. In quantum foundations the duality between states
and effects plays an important role. It appears here in the form of an
adjunction, where we use maps 1 -> X as states. For such a state s and a
predicate p, the validity probability s |= p is defined, as an abstract Born
rule. It captures many forms of (Boolean or probabilistic) validity known from
the literature. Measurement from quantum mechanics is formalised categorically
in terms of `instruments', using L\"uders rule in the quantum case. These
instruments are special maps associated with predicates (more generally, with
tests), which perform the act of measurement and may have a side-effect that
disturbs the system under observation. This abstract description of
side-effects is one of the main achievements of the current approach. It is
shown that in the special case of C*-algebras, side-effect appear exclusively
in the non-commutative case. Also, these instruments are used for test
operators in a dynamic logic that can be used for reasoning about quantum
programs/protocols. The paper describes four successive assumptions, towards a
categorical axiomatisation of quantitative logic for probabilistic and quantum
systems
A topos for algebraic quantum theory
The aim of this paper is to relate algebraic quantum mechanics to topos
theory, so as to construct new foundations for quantum logic and quantum
spaces. Motivated by Bohr's idea that the empirical content of quantum physics
is accessible only through classical physics, we show how a C*-algebra of
observables A induces a topos T(A) in which the amalgamation of all of its
commutative subalgebras comprises a single commutative C*-algebra. According to
the constructive Gelfand duality theorem of Banaschewski and Mulvey, the latter
has an internal spectrum S(A) in T(A), which in our approach plays the role of
a quantum phase space of the system. Thus we associate a locale (which is the
topos-theoretical notion of a space and which intrinsically carries the
intuitionistic logical structure of a Heyting algebra) to a C*-algebra (which
is the noncommutative notion of a space). In this setting, states on A become
probability measures (more precisely, valuations) on S(A), and self-adjoint
elements of A define continuous functions (more precisely, locale maps) from
S(A) to Scott's interval domain. Noting that open subsets of S(A) correspond to
propositions about the system, the pairing map that assigns a (generalized)
truth value to a state and a proposition assumes an extremely simple
categorical form. Formulated in this way, the quantum theory defined by A is
essentially turned into a classical theory, internal to the topos T(A).Comment: 52 pages, final version, to appear in Communications in Mathematical
Physic
Combinatorial Hopf algebras in quantum field theory I
This manuscript stands at the interface between combinatorial Hopf algebra
theory and renormalization theory. Its plan is as follows: Section 1 is the
introduction, and contains as well an elementary invitation to the subject. The
rest of part I, comprising Sections 2-6, is devoted to the basics of Hopf
algebra theory and examples, in ascending level of complexity. Part II turns
around the all-important Faa di Bruno Hopf algebra. Section 7 contains a first,
direct approach to it. Section 8 gives applications of the Faa di Bruno algebra
to quantum field theory and Lagrange reversion. Section 9 rederives the related
Connes-Moscovici algebras. In Part III we turn to the Connes-Kreimer Hopf
algebras of Feynman graphs and, more generally, to incidence bialgebras. In
Section10 we describe the first. Then in Section11 we give a simple derivation
of (the properly combinatorial part of) Zimmermann's cancellation-free method,
in its original diagrammatic form. In Section 12 general incidence algebras are
introduced, and the Faa di Bruno bialgebras are described as incidence
bialgebras. In Section 13, deeper lore on Rota's incidence algebras allows us
to reinterpret Connes-Kreimer algebras in terms of distributive lattices. Next,
the general algebraic-combinatorial proof of the cancellation-free formula for
antipodes is ascertained; this is the heart of the paper. The structure results
for commutative Hopf algebras are found in Sections 14 and 15. An outlook
section very briefly reviews the coalgebraic aspects of quantization and the
Rota-Baxter map in renormalization.Comment: 94 pages, LaTeX figures, precisions made, typos corrected, more
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Semidistrim Lattices
We introduce semidistrim lattices, a simultaneous generalization of semidistributive and trim lattices that preserves many of their common properties. We prove that the elements of a semidistrim lattice correspond to the independent sets in an associated graph called the Galois graph, that products and intervals of semidistrim lattices are semidistrim and that the order complex of a semidistrim lattice is either contractible or homotopy equivalent to a sphere
Noncommutative lattices
The extended study of non-commutative lattices was begun in 1949 by Ernst Pascual Jordan, a theoretical and mathematical physicist and co-worker of Max Born and Werner Karl Heisenberg. Jordan introduced noncommutative lattices as algebraic structures potentially suitable to encompass the logic of the quantum world. The modern theory of noncommutative lattices began 40 years later with Jonathan Leech\u27s 1989 paper "Skew lattices in rings." Recently, noncommutative generalizations of lattices and related structures have seen an upsurge in interest, with new ideas and applications emerging, from quasilattices to skew Heyting algebras. Much of this activity is derived in some way from the initiation, over thirty years ago, of Jonathan Leech\u27s program of research that studied noncommutative variations of lattices. The present book consists of seven chapters, mainly covering skew lattices, quasilattices and paralattices, skew lattices of idempotents in rings and skew Boolean algebras. As such, it is the first research monograph covering major results due to the renewed study of noncommutative lattices. It will serve as a valuable graduate textbook on the subject, as well as handy reference to researchers of noncommutative algebras
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