From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/2473 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter McBurney Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: quantum logic Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:21:30 +0100 Message-ID: <3F8AA6DA.6090503@csc.liv.ac.uk> References: <200310120057.h9C0vK816608@math-cl-n01.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241018684 4319 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:24:44 +0000 (UTC) To: categories Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Thu Oct 16 16:47:35 2003 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:47:35 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.10) id 1AAE5r-0003O9-00 for categories-list@mta.ca; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:47:31 -0300 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 24 Original-Lines: 61 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:2473 Archived-At: John -- Although not a categorical treatment, a recent paper by Kurt Engesser and Dov Gabbay in discusses a connection between Quantum Logic and Hilbert spaces. (The reason the work appeared in the leading AI journal is that there are applications to nonmonotonic reasoning, which is a major area of research in AI.) Citation details and abstract below. -- Peter ================================================================== Artificial Intelligence Volume 136, Issue 1 , March 2002 , Pages 61-100 "Quantum logic, Hilbert space, revision theory" Kurt Engesser and Dov M. Gabbay a Birkenweg 3, 78573 Wurmlingen, Germany b Department of Computer Science, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK Abstract Our starting point is the observation that with a given Hilbert space H we may, in a way to be made precise, associate a class of non-monotonic consequence relations in such a way that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the rays of H and these consequence relations. The projectors in Hilbert space may then be viewed as a sort of revision operators. The lattice of closed subspaces appears as a natural generalisation of the concept of a Lindenbaum algebra in classical logic. The logics presentable by Hilbert spaces are investigated and characterised. Moreover, the individual consequence relations are studied. A key concept in this context is that of a consequence relation having a pointer to itself. It is proved that such consequence relations have certain remarkable properties in that they reflect their metatheory at the object level to a surprising extent. The tools used in the investigation stem from two different areas of research, namely from the disciplines of non-monotonic logic on the one hand and from Hilbert space theory on the other. There exist surprising connections between these two fields of research the investigation of which constitutes the purpose of this paper. Author Keywords: Quantum logic; Hilbert space; Revision theory; Consequence relation; Non-monotonic logic ====================================================================