New Structures for Physics

by Bob Coecke (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642128202
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/20/2010
Series:	Lecture Notes in Physics , #813
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	1031
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.20(d)

Table of Contents

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.