Jacques Distler has finally figured out why Condensed Matter physicists are keen on pentagons and hexagons these days. Louise Riofrio continues with a series of informative posts on new spacesuit designs, for the serious traveller. And the wonderful David Corfield links to a great paper on operads by Manin et al. One has to wonder what Manin is thinking about these days: working on operads one minute, and with Marcolli, an expert on the Riemann hypothesis, the next.
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CarlBrannen said,
July 18, 2007 @ 4:03 am
Kea, that WordPress LaTex sure is nice.
I just typed in a short introduction to Bilson-Thompson’s Helon model of the fermions and gauge bosons.
I wonder if I should type up a post on the Koide formula or instead do something on Clifford algebra.
kneemo said,
July 18, 2007 @ 6:20 am
Nice find Kea! A friend of mine is actually doing research with Rezayi at this time. However, I wasn’t aware that the Read-Rezayi system was shown to be universal for quantum computation. I’m going to talk to my friend a little more about this.
nosy snoopy said,
July 20, 2007 @ 2:23 pm
Kea:
“…And the wonderful David Corfield links to a great paper on operads by Manin et al. One has to wonder what Manin is thinking about these days…”
This paper is just nightmare.:)
“It is interesting to notice that the classical theory of recursive functions must refer
to a very special and in a sense universal algebra over a non–linear “computational
operad”, but nobody so far was able to formalize the latter. Main obstacle is
this: a standard description of any partially recursive function produces a circuit
that may contain cycles of an a priori unknown multiplicity and eventually infinite
subprocesses producing no output at all.”
What does it mean “classical theory of recursive functions”? Is there a “nonclassical computational operad”? Is Manin thinking about nonclassical theory of computation, or what, eh, Kea?
Kea said,
July 20, 2007 @ 10:41 pm
Hi nosy snoopy. Recursive function theory can be looked at as a part of Turing machine theory, which is a very literal way of seeing it as ‘classical’, and no doubt Manin is actually interested in quantum analogues. As he says, there is as yet no real notion of non-classical operad, because people who try to apply operads to quantum questions usually assume that quantization is of the traditional kind – even Kontsevich does this, whereas there should be a more canonical notion of quantumness in terms of higher operads.
nosy snoopy said,
July 21, 2007 @ 12:40 am
aaay :] spasibo. I am stupid.
Nonclassical=quantum.