Originally developed as an algebraic characterisation for quantum mechanics, the algebraic structure of quantales nowadays finds widespread applications ranging from (non-commutative) logics to hybrid systems. We present an approach to bring reasoning in quantales into the realm of (fully) automated theorem proving. Hence the paper paves the way for automatisation in various (new) fields of app...

We address two areas in which quantales have been used. One is of a topological nature, whereby quantales or involutive quantales are seen as generalized noncommutative spaces, and its main purpose so far has been to investigate the spectrum of noncommutative C*-algebras. The other sees quantales as algebras of abstract experiments on physical or computational systems, and has been applied to t...

We introduce and present results about a class of quantales, the topological relational quantales, that can be associated with tuples (X,R) such that X is a topological space and R is a lower-semicontinuous equivalence relation on X (see Definition 1 below). Our motivating case studies and examples of topological relational quantales include concrete quantales such as the relational quantales o...

Originally developed as an algebraic characterisation for quantum mechanics, the algebraic structure of quantales nowadays finds widespread applications ranging from (non-commutative) logics to hybrid systems. We present an approach to bring reasoning about quantales into the realm of (fully) automated theorem proving. This will yield automation in various (new) fields of applications in the fu...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of {bf K}-flat projective fuzzy quantales, and give an elementary characterization in terms of a fuzzy binary relation on the fuzzy quantale. Moreover, we  prove that {bf K}-flat projective fuzzy quantales are precisely the coalgebras for a certain comonad on the category of fuzzy quantales. Finally, we present two special cases of {bf K} as examples.

1 Quantales In this section we introduce the basic deenitions and results of the theory of quantales (a good reference is Ros]). Quantales were introduced by Mulvey ((Mul]) as an algebraic tool for studying representations of non-commutative C-algebras. Informally, a quantale is a complete lattice Q equipped with a product distributive over arbitrary sup's. The importance of quantales for Linea...

The starting point of the present study is the interpretation of intuitionistic linear logic in Petri nets proposed by U. Engberg and G. Winskel. We show that several categories of order algebras provide equivalent interpretations of this logic, and identify the category of the so called strongly coherent quantales arising in these interpretations. The equivalence of the interpretations is inti...

We introduce the concept of a Girard couple, which consists of two (not necessarily unital) quantales linked by a strong form of duality. The two basic examples of Girard couples arise in the study of endomorphism quantales and of the spectra of operator algebras. We construct, for an arbitrary sup-lattice S, a Girard quantale whose right-sided part is isomorphic to S.