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Axiomatising the dagger category of complex Hilbert spaces

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Authors: Jan Paseka, Thomas Vetterlein

Year

2025

Paper ID

16932

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Preprint

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We axiomatise the dagger category of complex Hilbert spaces and bounded linear maps, using exclusively purely categorical conditions. Our axioms are chosen with the aim of an easy interpretability: two of them describe the composition of objecs, two further ones deal with the decomposition of objects, and a final axiom expresses a symmetry property. The categorical reconstruction of complex Hilbert spaces addresses foundational issues in quantum physics. We present a simplified alternative to recent characterisations.

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