Von Neumann categories (Q748710)

The topological quantum field is the powerful tool in the study of the mathematical base of the quantum field theory. The topological quantum field is also important in the research of the quantum information for the reason of topological properties. There are many concepts in topological quantum field, such as objects, functor, category, monoidal category. The paper under review proposes a multi-object version of von Neumann algebra by the definition of the premonoidal category. The theory provides us a new way to discuss some quantum information progresses in fame of the algebra quantum field, such as teleportation and Grothendieck Construction.