The double-optics doubling conjecture

Let X,A,Y,BX,A,Y,B be objects of the underlying actegories, and let ((X,A),(Y,B))((X,A),(Y,B)) be an object of the category of double lenses over the optic category. A context on ((X,A),(Y,B))((X,A),(Y,B)) is equivalently a state

(I,I)((X,A),(Y,B))(I,I)\mathrel{\to}((X,A),(Y,B))

in the monoidal category of double lenses. Double-optics doubling conjecture. Categories of double optics are instances of the doubling, or CP, construction from categorical quantum mechanics. This conjecture proposes a categorical-quantum-mechanical explanation of the graphical structure of double optics; its resolution is not specified in the source.

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Toby St Clere Smithe, “Cyber Kittens, or Some First Steps Towards Categorical Cybernetics”, arXiv:2101.10483 (2021).

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