Sequential product spaces are Jordan algebras

DOI10.1063/1.5093504MaRDI QIDQ5223596zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John van de Wetering

Publication date 18 July 2019

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11139

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered rings, algebras, modules (06F25) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Ordered normed spaces (46B40) Linearly ordered topological spaces, generalized ordered spaces, and partially ordered spaces (54F05) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Noncommutative Jordan algebras (17A15)

Abstract: We show that finite-dimensional order unit spaces equipped with a continuous sequential product as defined by Gudder and Greechie are homogeneous and self-dual. As a consequence of the Koecher-Vinberg theorem these spaces therefore correspond to Euclidean Jordan algebras. We remark on the significance of this result in the context of reconstructions of quantum theory. In particular, we show that sequential product spaces must be C*-algebras when their vector space tensor product is also a sequential product space (in the parlance of operational theories, when the space `allows a local composite'). We also show that sequential product spaces in infinite dimension correspond to JB-algebras when a few additional conditions are satisfied. Finally, we remark on how changing the axioms of the sequential product might lead to a new characterisation of homogeneous cones.

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