New Structures for Physics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Coecke, Bob (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 813
• Subjects: Physics.; Computers.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.; Theory of Computation.
• Physical Description: XVIII, 1031 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642128219
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;

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.