COMPACTLY ACCESSIBLE CATEGORIES AND QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION
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@MISC{Heunen_compactlyaccessible,
author = {Chris Heunen},
title = {COMPACTLY ACCESSIBLE CATEGORIES AND QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. Compact categories have lately seen renewed interest via applications to quantum physics. Being essentially finite-dimensional, they cannot accomodate (co)limit-based constructions. For example, they cannot capture protocols such as quantum key distribution, that rely on the law of large numbers. To overcome this limitation, we introduce the notion of a compactly accessible category, relying on the extra structure of a factorisation system. This notion allows for infinite dimension while retaining key properties of compact categories: the main technical result is that the choice-of-duals functor on the compact







