Resource theories of knowledge

How far can we take the resource theoretic approach to explore physics? Resource theories like LOCC, reference frames and quantum thermodynamics have proven a powerful tool to study how agents who are subject to certain constraints can act on physical systems. This approach has advanced our understanding of fundamental physical principles, such as the second law of thermodynamics, and provided operational measures to quantify resources such as entanglement or information content. In this work, we significantly extend the approach and range of applicability of resource theories. Firstly we generalize the notion of resource theories to include any description or knowledge that agents may have of a physical state, beyond the density operator formalism. We show how to relate theories that differ in the language used to describe resources, like micro and macroscopic thermodynamics. Finally, we take a top-down approach to locality, in which a subsystem structure is derived from a global theory rather than assumed. The extended framework introduced here enables us to formalize new tasks in the language of resource theories, ranging from tomography, cryptography, thermodynamics and foundational questions, both within and beyond quantum theory.Comment: 28 pages featuring figures, examples, map and neatly boxed theorems, plus appendi

Smarandache Near-rings

Generally, in any human field, a Smarandache Structure on a set A means a weak structure W on A such that there exists a proper subset B contained in A which is embedded with a stronger structure S. These types of structures occur in our everyday's life, that's why we study them in this book. Thus, as a particular case: A Near-ring is a non-empty set N together with two binary operations '+' and '.' such that (N, +) is a group (not necessarily abelian), (N, .) is a semigroup. For all a, b, c belonging to N we have (a + b) . c = a . c + b . c A Near-field is a non-empty set P together with two binary operations '+' and '.' such that (P, +) is a group (not-necessarily abelian), {P\{0}, .) is a group. For all a, b, c belonging to P we have (a + b) . c = a . c + b . c A Smarandache Near-ring is a near-ring N which has a proper subset P contained in N, where P is a near-field (with respect to the same binary operations on N).Comment: 200 pages, 50 tables, 20 figure