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Duality for generalized events

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ROMAN FRICZ<br />

2-chains does not admit any order determining family. M. Papco, at the<br />

SCAM-conference in Bratislava, April 2003 (cf. [25]), presented the construction<br />

of the product of ID -measurable spaces leading to the construction of the<br />

coproduct in the category ID . The latter yields the coproduct in the category<br />

PB.<br />

Let {Xs : s G 5} be a family of probs. Denote Hs = hom(X3,I) and,<br />

as a rule, identify Xs and its image evs(X3) C I Hs under the evaluation map<br />

evs: Xs -> I H *. Consider the product H = Y\ Hs and the prob I H . For t G S,<br />

s£S<br />

define a natural embedding nt of evt(Xt) = Xt into I H , sending u G Xt C I Ht<br />

to ut G I H defined as follows: <strong>for</strong> h = (h3; s G S) G H put ut(h) = u(ht), i.e.<br />

i/t depends only on the tth coordinate. It is a sequentially continuous D-poset<br />

morphism of Xt into I H . Let X C I H he the minimal subprob of I H which<br />

contains KS(XS), S G 5. If all involved probs are considered as ID objects<br />

and all PB morphisms are considered as ID morphisms, then (as shown by<br />

M. Papco) X, together with the coprojections {KS : Xs -» X : s G S}, is the<br />

coproduct of the family {Xs : s G 5} in ID .<br />

THEOREM 3.4. Let {Xs : s G S} be a family of probs. Then X, together<br />

with the coprojections {KS : Xs —> X : s G 5}, is the coproduct of the family<br />

{Xs: se S} in PB .<br />

Proof. The assertion follows directly from the definition of a coprodut and<br />

the fact that each prob and its image under the evaluation (via the set of all<br />

morphisms) are isomorphic. •<br />

4. Remarks<br />

The categories PB and MPB provide a tool <strong>for</strong> studying <strong>generalized</strong> probability:<br />

<strong>events</strong>, measures, random variables, observables. In [1], [2] (see also [15])<br />

the operational random variable is defined as a suitable map of the set of all probability<br />

measures on one measurable space into the set of all probability measures<br />

on another measurable space. If the map sends a point measure (an elementary<br />

event) to a nontrivial probability measure, then the random variable has a quantum<br />

nature. We claim that ID -measurable maps, and hence PB -measurable<br />

maps, generalize the operational random variables. Further, the duality between<br />

PB and SMPB covers the duality between operational random variables and<br />

the observables (going the opposite direction) as it is described in [1], [2]. We<br />

also claim that the sequential convergence and the categorical approach shed<br />

more light on the duality between the operational random variables and the<br />

observables.<br />

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