Deriving Dagger Compactness

Sean Tull
(University of Oxford)

Dagger compact structure is a common assumption in the study of physical process theories, but lacks a clear interpretation. Here we derive dagger compactness from more operational axioms on a category. We first characterise the structure in terms of a simple mapping of states to effects which we call a 'state dagger', before deriving this in any category with 'completely mixed' states and a form of purification, as in quantum theory.

In Bob Coecke and Matthew Leifer: Proceedings 16th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2019), Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA., 10-14 June 2019, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 318, pp. 181–195.
Published: 1st May 2020.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.318.11 bibtex PDF
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