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- Written by a leading researcher in the field
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- Includes worked-out problems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 868)
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About this book
The present text adopts this point of view, addressing the following basic questions: What are the main conceptual issues in quantum theory? How can these issues be solved within a new theoretical framework of quantum theory?
A possible way to overcome critical issues in present-day quantum physics – such as a priori assumptions about space and time that are not compatible with a theory of quantum gravity, and the impossibility of talking about systems without reference to an external observer – is through a reformulation of quantum theory in terms of a different mathematical framework called topos theory.
This course-tested primer sets out to explain to graduate students and newcomers to the field alike, the reasons for choosing topos theory to resolve the above-mentioned issues and how it brings quantum physics back to looking more like a “neo-realist” classical physics theory again.
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From the reviews:
“This text presents a reformulation of quantum theory in terms of modern mathematical framework called topos theory. … This is one of the first text to address all of these aspects of topos quantum theory at the graduate student level.” (S. Moskaliuk, zbMATH, Vol. 1280, 2014)
“The book is self-contained and can be used as a textbook or self-study manual teaching the usage of category theory and topos theory in particular in theoretical physics or in investigating the foundations of quantum theory in mathematically rigorous terms. … the book is a very welcome contribution.” (Frank Antonsen, Mathematical Reviews, December, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A First Course in Topos Quantum Theory
Authors: Cecilia Flori
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35713-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-35712-1Published: 10 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-35713-8Published: 27 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 449
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quantum Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences