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What has been called Geometry of Interaction (Girard 89) is a kind of semantics for linear logic/linear type theory that is however different in method from the usual categorical semantics in monoidal categories. Instead of interpreting a proof of a linear entailment as a morphism between objects and in a monoidal category as in categorical semantics, the Geometry of Interaction interprets it as an endomorphism on the object . This has been named operational semantics to contrast with the traditional denotational semantics.
That also the “operational semantics” of GoI has an interpretation in category theory, though, namely in compact closed categories induced from traced monoidal categories was first suggested in (Joyal-Street-Verity 96) and then developed in (Hines 97,Haghverdi 00, Abramsky-Haghverdi-Scott 02, Haghverdi-Scott 05). See (Shirahata) for a good review.
We discuss a relation of the GoI to superoperators/quantum operations in quantum physics.
According to (Abramsky-Haghverdi-Scott 02, remark 5.8, Haghverdi 00b, section 6) all the standard and intended interpretations of the GoI take place in those compact closed categories free on a traced monoidal category (as discussed there). In these references therefore the notation from (Joyal-Street-Verity 96) is changed to , for “Geometry of Interaction construction” (see Abramsky-Haghverdi-Scott 02, p. 11).
The objects of are pairs of objects of , a morphism in is given by a morphism in of the form
in , and composition of two such morphisms and is given by tracing out and in the evident way.
We observe now that subcategories of such are famous in quantum physics as “categories of superoperators” or “categories of quantum operations”, formalizing linear maps on spaces of operators on a Hilbert spaces that takes density matrices (hence mixed quantum states) to density matrices (“completely positive maps”).
First notice that if the traced monoidal category structure on happens to be that induced by a compact closed category structure, then by compact closure the morphisms in above are equivalently morphisms in of the form
and if moreover one concentrates on the case where etc. then these are morphisms of the form
Under this identification the somewhat curious-looking composition in given by tracing in becomes just plain composition in .
Subcategories (non-full) of consisting of morphisms of this form in some ambient have been considered in (Selinger 05), there denoted , and shown to formalize the concept of quantum operations in quantum physics. For a quick review of Selinger’s construction see for instance (Coecke-Heunen 11, section 2). Comments related to the relation between GoI and such constructions appear in (Abramsky-Coecke 02).
Now the construction requires and assumes that has all dual objects (which in the standard model means to restrict to Hilbert spaces of quantum states with are of finite dimension). To generalize away from this requirement a more general definition of quantum operations in is given in (Coecke-Heunen 11, def. 1), there denoted . Direct inspection shows that is still a (non-full) subcategory of .
The original references are
Jean-Yves Girard. Geometry of interaction I: interpretation of system F. In Ferro, Bonotto, Valentini, and Zanardo, editors, Logic Colloquium ‘88, pages 221 – 260, Amsterdam, 1989. North-Holland.
Jean-Yves Girard. Geometry of interaction II : deadlock-free algorithms. In Martin-Löf and Mints, editors, Proceedings of COLOG 88, volume 417 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 76 – 93, Heidelberg, 1990. Springer-Verlag.
Jean-Yves Girard. Geometry of interaction III : accommodating the additives. In Girard, Lafont, and Regnier, editors, Advances in Linear Logic, pages 329 – 389, Cambridge, 1995. Cambridge University Press.
Jean-Yves Girard. Geometry of interaction IV : the feedback equation. In Stoltenberg-Hansen and Väänänen, editors, Logic Colloquium ‘03, pages 76 – 117. Association for Symbolic Logic, 2006.
Jean-Yves Girard. Geometry of interaction V : logic in the hyperfinite factor, in memoriam Claire Delaleu (1991-2009). Fully revised version (October 2009). (pdf)
Jean-Yves Girard. Geometry of Interaction VI: a blueprint for Transcendental Syntax, January 2013, revised August 28th 2013. (pdf)
Reviews include
Jean-Yves Girard, Part VI of Lectures on Logic
Masaru Shirahata, Geometry of Interaction explained, (pdf)
Samson Abramsky, E. Haghverdi and P. Scott, “Geometry of Interaction and linear combinatory algebra,” Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (2002), vol. 12, pp. 625-665. (ps)
Samson Abramsky and R. Jagadeesan, “New Foundations for the Geometry of Interaction,” Proceedings 7th Annual IEEE Symp. on Logic in Computer Science, LICS’92, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 22–25 June 1992. (pdf)
Harry G. Mairson, “From Hilbert Spaces to Dilbert Spaces: Context Semantics Made Simple”, Proceedings of FST TCS 2002. (pdf)
Linear Logic Wiki, Geometry of Interaction
Daniel Murfet, section 5 of Logic and linear algebra: an introduction (arXiv:1407.2650)
The operational categorical semantics in traced monoidal categories is due to
Samson Abramsky, Esfandir Haghverdi, Philip Scott, Geometry of Interaction and Linear Combinatory Algebras. MSCS, vol. 12(5), 2002, 625-665, CUP (2002) (citeseer)
Esfandir Haghverdi, Philip Scott, A categorical model for the geometry of interactions ,Theoretical Computer Science, 2005 (pdf)
Discussion of quantum operations/completely positive maps mentioned above is in
Science (special issue: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Quantum Programming Languages). 2005 (pdf, ps)
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