Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (Oct 2012)

The Born rule as structure of spectral bundles (extended abstract)

  • Bertfried Fauser,
  • Guillaume Raynaud,
  • Steven Vickers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.95.8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 95, no. Proc. QPL 2011
pp. 81 – 90

Abstract

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Topos approaches to quantum foundations are described in a unified way by means of spectral bundles, where the base space is a space of contexts and each fibre is its spectrum. Differences in variance are due to the bundle being a fibration or opfibration. Relative to this structure, the probabilistic predictions of the Born rule in finite dimensional settings are then described as a section of a bundle of valuations. The construction uses in an essential way the geometric nature of the valuation locale monad.