categories in physics

1 Categories in Physics

This is a relatively new area in mathematical and theoretical physics that is concerned with category theory applications to physics, especially non-Abelian categories and non-Abelian algebraic topology concepts and results in mathematical physics and physical mathematics. Applications range from QFT, AQFT, non-Abelian gauge theories and Quantum Gravity to complex systems, categorical dynamics (http://planetmath.org/CategoricalDynamics), complex categorical dynamics (http://planetmath.org/CategoricalDynamics2), mathematical biophysics and relational biology. Other applications are related to graph theory approaches to Quantum Chemistry.

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Title	categories in physics
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