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Quanta, Logic and Spacetime.
Title:
Quanta, Logic and Spacetime.
Author:
Selesnick, S. A.
ISBN:
9789812794932
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (487 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Part I Preliminaries -- 1. Foundations -- 1.1 Physics without Objects -- 1.2 Observables -- 1.3 Finite Dimensional Heuristics -- 2. Quantum Sets -- 2.1 Logics and Lattices -- 2.2 Some First-order Quantum Aggregates -- 2.2.1 Finite Products -- 2.2.2 Sequences -- 2.2.3 Sets -- 2.2.4 Sibs -- 2.3 Quantum Set Theory -- 3. Group Duality Coherence and Cyclic Actions -- 3.1 The Duality of Groups and Hopf Algebras -- 3.1.1 Algebras -- 3.1.2 Coalgebras -- 3.1.3 Bialgebras and Hopf Algebras -- 3.1.4 The Additive Affine Group -- 3.1.5 Finite Group Algebras -- 3.1.6 Topological Hopf and Coalgebras -- 3.1.7 The Algebra of Representative Functions on a Compact Group -- 3.1.8 Tensor Symmetric and Exterior Algebras -- 3.1.9 The Universal Enveloping Algebra of a Lie Algebra -- 3.2 Quantum Versions of Cyclic Groups -- 3.2.1 Quantum Permutations: from SI(n C) to Zn -- 3.2.2 Condensation and Coherence -- 3.2.3 Quantizing Cycles: from Zn to SI(n C) -- Part II Computational Paradigms -- 4. Natural Deduction -- 4.1 Natural Deduction for a Minimal System -- 4.2 The Curry-Howard Isomorphism -- 4.3 The Gentzen Sequent Calculus -- 5. Quantum Logic -- 5.1 Orthologic and its Model Theory -- 5.1.1 Orthologic as a Deductive System -- 5.1.2 Modal Logic and Kripke Models -- 5.1.3 A Modal Translation Theorem -- 5.1.4 The Implication Problem and Orthomodular Logic -- 5.1.5 Orthomodular Foundations for Quantum Mechanics -- 5.2 Quantum Logic Proper: Hilbert Models -- 5.2.1 Observables and States for Hilbert Lattices -- 5.2.2 The Kochen-Specker Theorem a les lsham and Butterfield -- 5.3 Critique of Quantum Logic -- 6. The Computational Resources of Quantum Logic -- 6.1 An Orthological Toy -- 6.2 GQ: A Minimal Intuitionisitic Propositional Sequent Calculus for Quantum Resources -- 6.3 Intuitionistic Orthologic and GQ.

6.3.1 A Translation Theorem -- 6.3.2 The Model Category -- 6.3.3 A Model of Computation and the Emergence of the Qubit -- 6.3.4 Quantum Duplication as Entanglement -- 6.4 Quantum Computing in Classical Time: An Algebraic Model -- 6.5 Conclusions -- Part III The Plenum -- 7. A Quantum Net -- 7.1 Symmetries of the Qubit -- 7.2 A Superconducting Quantum Net -- 7.2.1 Some Remarks on Types and Reductions -- 7.3 A Geometrical Approach to the Net -- 8. Towards a Correspondence Principle for the Quantum Net -- 8.1 Vectors -- 8.2 Transport Curves and a little Chenism -- 9. A Correspondence Principle for the Quantum Net -- 9.1 Spinor Duality -- 9.2 Variation Derivation and the Dirac Maps -- 9.3 The A Operators -- 9.4 The Real Subspace Frame Choices and Dirac Matrices -- 9.4.1 General Transformations -- 9.5 The Correspondence Principle -- 10. Dynamics I -- 10.1 Dynamic Transport and the Lagrangian -- 10.2 Problems with the Dirac Operator -- 10.3 Feynman Path Integral and Field Equations -- 10.3.1 Solving the Weyl Equations by (Quantum) Thinking! -- 11. Dynamics II -- 11.1 The Defect's New Clothes -- 11.2 Dynamic Transport and the Lagrangian Revisited -- 11.2.1 The Interaction Term -- 11.2.2 The Kinetic Term -- 11.2.3 Ghosts -- 11.3 Resolution and Rescaling -- 12. Comparisons Interpretations and Speculations -- 12.1 An Abbreviated Sketch of the Standard Model -- 12.2 Asymptotic Freedom and Grand Unification -- 12.3 Superconduction and Electroweak Unification -- 12.4 Long Distance Topological Implications -- 12.5 Quantization Connections and Loop Quantum Gravity -- 12.6 Outlook -- References -- Citation Index -- Notational Index and Glossary -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
In this expanded edition of Quanta, Logic and Spacetime , the logical base is greatly broadened and quantum-computational aspects of the approach are brought to the fore. The first two parts of this edition may indeed be regarded as providing a self-contained and logic-based foundation for - and an introduction to - the enterprise known as quantum computing. The rest of the work takes on the task (as in the first edition) of computing from first principles certain dynamical expressions which turn out to compare favorably with the Lagrangian densities of the (massless) Standard Model, including gravity. The logic of this process is now subject to greater formal rigor than was possible in the first edition, and the central thesis - that quantum physics at a fundamental level may itself be realized as a species of quantum computation - is strongly underscored. Errata. Errata (159 KB). Sample Chapter(s). Foundations (207 KB). Contents: Preliminaries: Foundations: Quantum Sets; Group Duality, Coherence and Cyclic Actions; Computational Paradigms: Natural Deduction; Quantum Logic; The Computational Resources of Quantum Logic; The Plenum: A Quantum Net; Towards a Correspondence Principle for the Quantum Net; A Correspondence Principle for the Quantum Net; Dynamics I; Dynamics II; Comparisons, Interpretations and Speculations. Readership: Mathematicians and physicists.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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