Preface |
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0.2 Basic Working Notions |
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7 | (7) |
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0.3 Observables and States |
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14 | (10) |
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0.3.1 Sheaf-Theoretic Observable Localization |
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14 | (6) |
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0.3.2 Vector Sheaves of States and Local Gauge Invariance |
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20 | (3) |
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0.3.3 Exponential Short Exact Sequence |
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23 | (1) |
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0.4 Connections and Differential Analysis |
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24 | (35) |
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0.4.1 Kahler-de Rham Paradigm |
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24 | (2) |
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0.4.2 Kahler's Algebraic Extension Method |
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26 | (4) |
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0.4.3 Connections and the Sheaf-Theoretic de Rham Complex |
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30 | (3) |
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0.4.4 Local Forms of Connection and Curvature on Vector Sheaves of States |
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33 | (3) |
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0.4.5 Gauge Equivalence Classes of Differential Line Sheaves |
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36 | (2) |
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0.4.6 Quantization Condition via Cohomology |
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38 | (4) |
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0.4.7 Integrable Differential Line Sheaves |
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42 | (1) |
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0.4.8 Quantum Unitary Rays |
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43 | (2) |
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0.4.9 Gauge Equivalence of Quantum Unitary Rays |
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45 | (1) |
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0.4.10 Spectral Beams and Polarization Symmetry |
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46 | (3) |
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0.4.11 Affine Structure of Spectral Beams |
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49 | (3) |
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0.4.12 Monodromy Group and Integrable Phase Factors |
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52 | (2) |
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0.4.13 Aharonov-Bohm Effect |
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54 | (2) |
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0.4.14 Holonomy of Spectral Beams |
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56 | (3) |
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0.5 The Functorial Imperative |
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59 | (16) |
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0.5.1 Representable Functors and Natural Transformations |
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59 | (2) |
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0.5.2 Adjoint Functors: Universals and Equivalence |
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61 | (5) |
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0.5.3 Probes and Adjoints to Realization Functors |
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66 | (5) |
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0.5.4 Horn-Tensor Adjunction |
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71 | (4) |
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0.6 Grothendieck Topos Interpretation of the Horn-Tensor Adjunction |
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75 | (6) |
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0.7 The Grothendieck Topology of Epimorphic Families |
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81 | (2) |
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0.8 Unit and Counit of the Horn-Tensor Adjunction |
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83 | (6) |
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89 | (86) |
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89 | (2) |
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1.1 Basic Assumptions of ADG (: Abstract Differential Geometry) |
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91 | (4) |
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95 | (9) |
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98 | (3) |
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101 | (3) |
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1.3 Bohr's Correspondence |
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104 | (10) |
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1.4 Functorial, Topos-Theoretic Mechanism of ADG |
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114 | (5) |
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119 | (2) |
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1.6 Elementary Particles in the Jargon of ADG |
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121 | (4) |
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1.7 Relational Aspect of Space, Again |
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125 | (2) |
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1.8 Dynamical Dressing, Extension: Kahler Construction (Contn'd) |
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127 | (9) |
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1.9 Adjunction, Least Action Principle |
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136 | (16) |
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142 | (6) |
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1.9.2 More Thoughts on a Unified Field Theory |
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148 | (4) |
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1.10 Transformation Law of Potentials, in Terms of ADG |
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152 | (13) |
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1.10.1 Lagrangian Perspective via "Abstract Geometric Algebra" (AGA) |
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157 | (6) |
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1.10.2 More on the Fundamental "Adjunction" |
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163 | (2) |
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1.11 Characteristics of a Physical Law |
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165 | (4) |
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1.12 Complementary Remarks |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (4) |
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2 Applications: Fundamental Adjunctions |
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175 | (90) |
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2.1 On Utiyama's Theme/Principle Through "A-invariance" |
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175 | (11) |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (2) |
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2.1.3 Utiyama's Theorem (Contn'd: Technical Details) |
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178 | (6) |
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2.1.4 Dynamical Analogue of the Fundamental Horn-Tensor Adjunction |
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184 | (2) |
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2.2 "Affine Geometry" and "Quantum" |
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186 | (9) |
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186 | (1) |
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2.2.2 ADG vis-a-vis the "Infinitely Small" (: "Infinitesimal") |
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187 | (2) |
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2.2.3 Flow, and the "Quantum" |
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189 | (5) |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (34) |
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195 | (1) |
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196 | (3) |
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2.3.2 A Non-Spatial Perspective. Whence, ADG |
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199 | (2) |
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2.3.3 Relational Calculus |
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201 | (1) |
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2.3.4 "Feynman's Calculus", in Terms of ADG |
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202 | (3) |
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205 | (2) |
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2.3.6 Schrodinger--Hamilton Adjunction |
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207 | (9) |
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2.3.7 "Everything is Light" |
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216 | (13) |
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2.4 Stone--von Neumann Adjunction |
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229 | (21) |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (1) |
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2.4.3 Stone--von Neumann Theorem in Action |
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231 | (2) |
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2.4.4 De Broglie--Einstein--Feynman Adjunction |
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233 | (5) |
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238 | (11) |
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249 | (1) |
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2.5 Quantized Einstein's Equation |
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250 | (4) |
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250 | (1) |
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2.5.2 Einstein's Fundamental Equation in Vacuo |
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250 | (3) |
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2.5.3 Einstein's Equation: The "Standard Model" |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (4) |
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2.6.1 ADG Viewed, as an "Identity" |
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254 | (3) |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (7) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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