In the mathematical field of category theory, FinVect (or FdVect) is the category whose objects are all finite-dimensional vector spaces and whose morphisms are all linear maps between them.
Properties
FinVect has two monoidal products:
- the direct sum of vector spaces, which is both a categorical product and a coproduct,
- the tensor product, which makes FinVect a compact closed category.
Examples
Tensor networks are string diagrams interpreted in FinVect.
Group representations are functors from groups, seen as one-object categories, into FinVect.
DisCoCat models are monoidal functors from a pregroup grammar to FinVect.
See also
References
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- de Felice, Giovanni; Meichanetzidis, Konstantinos; Toumi, Alexis (2020). "Functorial question answering". Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. 323: 84–94. arXiv:1905.07408. doi:10.4204/EPTCS.323.6. S2CID 195874109.