A new approach to quantising space-time. III: State vectors as functions on arrows (Q2493540)

[For part I and II see the reviews above.] This is the third work of the author's series of three papers on a new approach to quantising space-time: the first is [Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 7, No. 2, 331--367 (2003; Zbl 1093.81058)] on quantising on a general category and the second is [Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 7, No. 5, 807--829 (2003; Zbl 1094.81007)] on quantising on a category of sets. In the first paper, the author proposed a new approach for constructing quantum theories that might be used particularly in potential approaches to quantum gravity that involve non-manifold models for space or space-time. There the configuration space is the set of objects \(\text{Ob}({\mathcal Q})\) in a category \({\mathcal Q}\). The quantum states in this approach are cross-sections of a bundle \(A \rightsquigarrow {\mathcal K}[A]\) of Hilbert spaces over \(\text{Ob}({\mathcal Q})\). The Hilbert spaces \({\mathcal K}[A]\), \(A \in \text{Ob}({\mathcal Q})\), depend strongly on the object \(A\), and have to be chosen so as to get an irreducible faithful representation of the basic category quantisation monoid \(AF({\mathcal Q})\). The aim of the second paper consists in giving some examples of the above-obtained scheme to illustrate the basic ideas. Namely, in the second paper the author showed how this theory works in practice for categories of sets. The purpose of the present paper is to develop a different approach in which the state vectors are complex-valued functions on the set of arrows in \({\mathcal Q}\). This throws a new light on the Hilbert bundle scheme. In particular, it is shown that the results of that approach in the physically important example when \({\mathcal Q}\) is a small category of finite sets is reccovered.