categories in physics

categories in physics

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Categories in Physics

This is a relatively new area in mathematical and theoretical physics that is concerned with

category theory

applications to physics, especially

non-Abelian

categories

and non-Abelian

algebraic topology

concepts

and results in mathematical physics and physical mathematics. Applications range from QFT,
AQFT, non-Abelian gauge theories and

Quantum Gravity

to

complex systems

,

categorical dynamics

(

http://planetmath.org/CategoricalDynamics

),
complex categorical dynamics (

http://planetmath.org/CategoricalDynamics2

),

mathematical biophysics

and

relational biology

. Other applications are related to graph theory approaches to Quantum Chemistry.

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