Noncommutativity as a colimit

DOI10.1007/s10485-011-9246-3zbMath1261.46051arXiv1003.3618MaRDI QIDQ695318

Benno van den Berg, Chris Heunen

Publication date: 21 December 2012

Published in: Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3618

zbMATH Keywords

von Neumann algebra; Stone duality; projection; locale; quantum mechanics; frame; topos; tensor product; Gelfand duality; colimit; geometric morphism; (co)complete category; (partial) Boolean algebra; categorical reflection; commeasurability relation; partial \(C^*\)-algebra; partial AW*-algebra; partial Rickart \(C^{\ast}\)-algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

46L05: General theory of (C^*)-algebras

06E15: Stone spaces (Boolean spaces) and related structures

46L06: Tensor products of (C^*)-algebras

46M15: Categories, functors in functional analysis

18B99: Special categories

18A30: Limits and colimits (products, sums, directed limits, pushouts, fiber products, equalizers, kernels, ends and coends, etc.)

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