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PIRSA ID: https://pirsa.org/25020033

Series:

Event Type: Seminar

Scientific Area(s): Quantum Foundations

Speaker(s): James Hefford Inria de Saclay

Event Link: https://events.perimeterinstitute.ca/e/1008

I will give a general method for producing a process theory of local spacetime events and higher-order transformations from any base process theory of first-order maps. This process theory models events as intervention-context pairs, uniting the local actions by agents with the structure of the spacetime around them. I will show how this theory is richer than a standard process theory by permitting additional ways of composing agents beyond the usual tensor product, thereby capturing various strengths of possible spatio-temporal correlations. I will also explain the connection between these compositions and the logic "system BV".