Quantum Foundations

The BV-Logic of Spacetime InterventionsConfirmed

by James Hefford (Inria de Saclay)

America/Toronto
PI/3-301 - Alice Room (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/3-301 - Alice Room

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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Description

I will give a general method for producing a process theory of local spacetime events and higher-order transformations from any base process theory of first-order maps. This process theory models events as intervention-context pairs, uniting the local actions by agents with the structure of the spacetime around them. I will show how this theory is richer than a standard process theory by permitting additional ways of composing agents beyond the usual tensor product, thereby capturing various strengths of possible spatio-temporal correlations. I will also explain the connection between these compositions and the logic "system BV".

Organised by

Elie Wolfe