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.

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...