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    • brief category:people-entry for hyperlinking references

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    • have adjusted the wording in the Idea-section

      and added the original references that were previously only alluded to:

      • Dana S. Scott, Outline of a mathematical theory of computation, in: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Princeton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (1970) 169–176. [pdf]

      • Dana S. Scott, Christopher Strachey, Toward a Mathematical Semantics for Computer Languages, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Technical Monograph PRG-6 (1971) [pdf]

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    • Have added to HowTo a description for how to label equations

      In the course of this I restructured the section “How to make links to subsections of a page” by giving it a few descriptively-titled subsections.

    • added pointer to

      for discussion of monopole correlation functions.

      Really I am looking for discussion of caloron correlation functions, though…

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    • Since the page geometry of physics – categories and toposes did not save anymore, due to rendering timeouts caused by its size, I have to decompose it, hereby, into sub-pages that are saved and then re-!included separately.

      With our new announcement system this means, for better or worse, that I will now have to “announce” these subsections separately. Please bear with me.

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    • following Zoran’s suggestion I added to the beginning of the Idea-section at monad a few sentences on the general idea, leading then over to the Idea with respect to algebraic theories that used to be the only idea given there.

      Also added a brief stub-subsection on monads in arbitrary 2-categories. This entry deserves a bit more atention.

    • re-did the typesetting of the adjoint triple with TikZ

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    • brief category:people-entry for hyperlinking references

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    • some minimum on the QPMC quantum protocol verification tool.

      Though I am unsure in which sense this physically exists.

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    • a minimum of an Idea-section, but mainly to record some references

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    • I would like to add "Category Theory in Context" to the list of basic textbooks in the Category Theory references page. Any comments?

    • I’m not entirely happy with the introduction (“Statement”) to the page axiom of choice. On the one hand, it implies that the axiom of choice is something to be considered relative to a given category CC (which is reasonable), but it then proceeds to give the external formulation of AC for such a CC, which I think is usually not the best meaning of “AC relative to CC”. I would prefer to give the Statement as “every surjection in the category of sets splits” and then discuss later that analogous statements for other categories (including both internal and external ones) can also be called “axioms of choice” — but with emphasis on the internal ones, since they are what correspond to the original axiom of choice (for sets) in the internal logic.

      (I would also prefer to change “epimorphism” for “surjection” or “regular/effective epimorphism”, especially when generalizing away from sets.)

    • I have added at HomePage in the section Discussion a new sentence with a new link:

      If you do contribute to the nLab, you are strongly encouraged to similarly drop a short note there about what you have done – or maybe just about what you plan to do or even what you would like others to do. See Welcome to the nForum (nlabmeta) for more information.

      I had completly forgotton about that page Welcome to the nForum (nlabmeta). I re-doscivered it only after my recent related comment here.

    • Added some discussion (here) of chaotic groupoids on groups as models for their universal principal bundle.

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    • brief category:people-entry for hyperlinking references

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    • brief category:people-entry for hyperlinking references

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    • Added some references on the categorical point of view on AECs. I think ideally this page would be rewritten to take that perspective from the start, in line with the nPOV, but I certainly don’t have the time (or background) to do that myself.

      diff, v9, current

    • I’ve added to Eilenberg-Moore category an explicit definition of EM objects in a 2-category and some other universal properties of EM categories, including Linton’s construction of the EM category as a subcategory of the presheaves on the Kleisli category.

      Question: can anyone tell me what Street–Walters mean when they say that this construction (and their generalised one, in a 2-category with a Yoneda structure) exhibits the EM category as the ‘category of sheaves for a certain generalised topology on’ the Kleisli category?

    • Am starting a write-up (here) of how (programming languages for) quantum circuits “with classical control and/by measurement” have a rather natural and elegant formulation within the linear homotopy type theory of Riley 2022.

      Aspects of this have a resemblance to some constructions considered in/with “Quipper”, but maybe it helps clarify some issues there, such as that of “dynamic lifting”.

      The entry is currently written without TOC and without Idea-section etc, but rather as a single top-level section that could be !include-ed into relevant entries (such as at quantum circuit and at dependent linear type theory). But for the moment I haven’t included it anywhere yet, and maybe I’ll eventually change my mind about it.

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    • I’ll try to start add some actual content to the entries classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, etc. For the time being I added a simple but good definition to classical mechanics. Of course this must eventually go with more discussion to show any value. I hope to be able to use some nice lecture notes from Igir Khavkine for this eventually.

      For the time being, notice there was this old discussion box, which I am herby mving to the forum here:

      –

      +–{.query} Edit: I changed the above text, incorporating a part of the discussion (Zoran).

      Zoran: I disagree. Classical mechanics is classical mechanics of anything: point particles, rigid bodies (the latter I already included), infinite systems (mechanics of strings, membranes, springs, elastic media, classical fields). It includes statics, not only dynamics. The standard textbooks like Goldstein take it exactly in that generality.

      One could even count the simplified beginning part of the specialized branches like aerodynamics and hydrodynamics (ideal liquids for example), which are usually studied in separate courses and which in full formulation are not just mechanical systems, as the thermodynamics also affects the dynamics. There are also mechanical models of dissipative systems, where the dissipative part is taken only phenomenologically, e.g. as friction terms. Hydrodynamics can also be considered as a part of rheology.

      Toby: I take your point that ’dynamics’ was not the right word. But do you draw any distinction between ’classical mechanics’ and ’classical physics’? Conversely, what word would you use to restrict attention to particles instead of fields, if not ’mechanics’? (Incidentally, I would take point particles as possibly spinning, although I agree that I should not assume that the particle are points anyway.)

      Zoran: you see, in classical mechanics you express all you have by attaching mass, position, velocity etc. to the parfts of mechanical systems. Not all classical physics belongs to this kind of description. The thermodynamical quantities may influence the motion of the systemm, but their description is out of the frame of classical mechanics. If you study liquids you have to take into account both the classical mechanics of the liquid continuum but also variations of its temperature, entropy and so on, which are not expressable within the variables of mechanics. Formally speaking of course, the thermodynamics has very similar formal structure as mechanics, for example Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies and enthalpy are like Lagrangean, the quantities which are extremized when certain theremodynamical quantities are kept constant. To answer the terminological question, there is a classical mechanics of point particles and it is called classical mechanics of point particles, there is also cm of fields and cm of rigid bodies.

      Toby: So ’mechanics’ for you means ‹not taking into account thermal physics›? That's not the way that I learned it! But I admit that I do not have a slick phrase for that (any more than you have a slick phrase for ‹mechanics of point particles›), so I will try to ascertain how the term is usually used and defer to that. =–

    • added pointer to p. 245 of Sets for Mathematics for the idea of

      UX:comodalX ⟶ X ⟶ modalX opposite1 unity opposite2 U X \;\colon\; \array{ comodal X &\longrightarrow& X &\longrightarrow& modal X \\ opposite\;1 && unity && opposite\;2 }

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    • brief category:people-entry for hyperlinking references

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    • brief category:people-entry for hyperlinking references

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    • I corrected an apparent typo:

      A 2-monad TT as above is lax-idempotent if and only if for any TT-algebra a:TA→Aa \colon T A \to A there is a 2-cell θ a:1⇒η∘a\theta_a \colon 1 \Rightarrow \eta \circ a

      to

      A 2-monad TT as above is lax-idempotent if and only if for any TT-algebra a:TA→Aa \colon T A \to A there is a 2-cell θ a:1⇒η A∘a\theta_a \colon 1 \Rightarrow \eta_A \circ a

      It might be nice to say η A\eta_A is the unit of the algebra….

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    • I’ve wondered for a while whether there is a notion of lax-idempotent 2-adjunction, but for some reason until now I’d never thought to try the obvious route of simply generalizing the conditions defining an idempotent adjunction. Haven’t had time to cross-link it yet.

    • brief category:people-entry for hyoerlinking references

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    • I rescued combinatory logic from being a “my first slide” spam and gave it some content, mainly to record the fact (which I just learned) that under propositions as types, combinatory logic corresponds to a Hilbert system.

      I feel like there should be something semantic to say here too, like λ\lambda-calculus corresponding to a “closed, unital, cartesian multicategory” (a cartesian multicategory that is “closed and unital” as in the second example here) and combinatory logic corresponding to a closed category that is also “cartesian” in some sense. Has anyone defined such a sense?

      Relatedly, is there a notion of “linear combinatory logic” that would correspond to ordinary (symmetric) closed categories? My best guess is that instead of SS and KK you would have combinators with the following types:

      (B→C)→(A→B)→(A→C) (B\to C) \to (A\to B) \to (A\to C) (A→(B→C))→B→A→C (A \to (B\to C)) \to B \to A\to C

      coming from the two ways to eliminate a dependency in SS to make it linear (KK is irreducibly nonlinear). These are of course the ways that you express composition and symmetry in a closed category.

    • Doi link for Scott 1976, and more details for Hyland 2017 (arxiv, doi, journal ref)

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    • brief category:people-entry for hyperlinking references

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    • a bare list of references, to be !include-ed into the References-list of relevant entries

      v1, current

    • brief category:people-entry for hyperlinking references

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    • starting something – so far an Idea-section, references, and some quotes on and around the question “Why did this take us 60+ years?”

      next I’ll produce a tikz-diagram showing and explaining the “protocol”.

      v1, current

    • Added some references to Bob Walter’s work, with links.

      diff, v6, current

    • brief category:people-entry for hyperlinking references

      v1, current

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