Talk by Miklos Redei at the MCMP (May 13)

[Dardashti, Radin]

Speaker: Miklos Redei (London School of Economics)
Date: Wed., May 13
Location: Ludwigstr. 31, ground floor, room 021
Time: 18:15 -⁠⁠⁠ 19:45

Title: A categorial approach to relativistic locality

Abstract:
In the talk relativistic locality of a probabilistic physical theory is 
interpreted as an interconnected web of properties which express 
compatibility of the theory with the underlying causal structure of 
spacetime. Four components of this web are distinguished: spatiotemporal 
locality, causal locality-Independence, causal locality-Dependence, and 
causal locality-Dynamic. These four conditions will be specified in 
terms of concepts from the categorical approach to quantum field theory 
and results are recalled indicating the extent to which an algebraic 
quantum field theory satisfying the Haag–Kastler axioms is causally 
local.

The talk is based on the paper: A categorial approach to relativistic 
locality" Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 48 
(2014) 137-146