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arxiv: 1402.7041 · v1 · pith:7SYDXPVBnew · submitted 2014-02-27 · 🧮 math-ph · hep-th· math.AT· math.LO· math.MP

Quantization via Linear homotopy types

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keywords theoryquantumlinearquantizationfieldhomotopyhomotopy-typemechanics
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In the foundational logical framework of homotopy-type theory we discuss a natural formalization of secondary integral transforms in stable geometric homotopy theory. We observe that this yields a process of non-perturbative cohomological quantization of local pre-quantum field theory; and show that quantum anomaly cancellation amounts to realizing this as the boundary of a field theory that is given by genuine (primary) integral transforms, hence by linear polynomial functors. Recalling that traditional linear logic has semantics in symmetric monoidal categories and serves to formalize quantum mechanics, what we consider is its refinement to linear homotopy-type theory with semantics in stable infinity-categories of bundles of stable homotopy types (generalized cohomology theories) formalizing Lagrangian quantum field theory, following Nuiten and closely related to recent work by Haugseng and Hopkins-Lurie. For the reader interested in technical problems of quantization we provide non-perturbative quantization of Poisson manifolds and of the superstring; and find insight into quantum anomaly cancellation, the holographic principle and motivic structures in quantization. For the reader inclined to the interpretation of quantum mechanics we exhibit quantum superposition and interference as existential quantification in linear homotopy-type theory. For the reader inclined to foundations we provide a refinement of the proposal by Lawvere for a formal foundation of physics, lifted from classical continuum mechanics to local Lagrangian quantum gauge field theory.

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