👤 Alberto Ibort

🏛️ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

📝 On the categorical foundations of field theories: classical and quantum

Abstract

We will argue that the categorical/groupoidal setting for quantum mechanical systems provides a natural background for classical and quantum field theories. From this perspective fields are just functors between appropriate categories (groupoids). The space of fields of the theory become a category of (pre)sheaves and they provide natural instances of topos. Some natural explicit examples, including topological gauge theories and other relevant models, will be discussed.