A Topos Foundation for Theories of Physics: III. The Representation of Physical Quantities With Arrows

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dc.creatorDoering, A.
dc.creatorIsham, C. J.
dc.date2007-03-07
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dc.descriptionThis paper is the third in a series whose goal is to develop a fundamentally new way of viewing theories of physics. Our basic contention is that constructing a theory of physics is equivalent to finding a representation in a topos of a certain formal language that is attached to the system. In paper II, we studied the topos representations of the propositional language PL(S) for the case of quantum theory, and in the present paper we do the same thing for the, more extensive, local language L(S). One of the main achievements is to find a topos representation for self-adjoint operators. This involves showing that, for any physical quantity A, there is an arrow $\breveδ^o(A):\Sig\map\SR$, where $\SR$ is the quantity-value object for this theory. The construction of $\breveδ^o(A)$ is an extension of the daseinisation of projection operators that was discussed in paper II. The object $\SR$ is a monoid-object only in the topos, $τ_ϕ$, of the theory, and to enhance the applicability of the formalism, we apply to $\SR$ a topos analogue of the Grothendieck extension of a monoid to a group. The resulting object, $\kSR$, is an abelian group-object in $τ_ϕ$. We also discuss another candidate, $\PR{\mathR}$, for the quantity-value object. In this presheaf, both inner and outer daseinisation are used in a symmetric way. Finally, there is a brief discussion of the role of unitary operators in the quantum topos scheme.
dc.description38 pages, no figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703064
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703064
dc.identifierJ.Math.Phys.49:053517,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1063/1.2883777
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/206857
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.titleA Topos Foundation for Theories of Physics: III. The Representation of Physical Quantities With Arrows
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