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Record Nr.

UNISA996466714703316

Titolo

New Structures for Physics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bob Coecke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2011

ISBN

3-642-12821-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 1031 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 813

Disciplina

530.15

Soggetti

Physics

Category theory (Mathematics)

Homological algebra

Computers

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Category Theory, Homological Algebra

Theory of Computation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I An ABC on Compositionality -- Part II Manifestations of Linearity -- Part III More Example Applications -- Part IV Informatic Geometry -- Part V. Spatio-Temporal Geometry -- Part VI Geometry and Topology in Computation.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides a series of tutorials on mathematical structures which recently have gained prominence in physics, ranging from quantum foundations, via quantum information, to quantum gravity. These include the theory of monoidal categories and corresponding graphical calculi, Girard’s linear logic, Scott domains, lambda calculus and corresponding logics for typing, topos theory, and more general process structures. Most of these structures are very prominent in computer science; the chapters here are tailored towards an audience of physicists.