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Sib. Zh. Ind. Mat., 2005 Volume 8, Number 4, Pages 131–148 (Mi sjim281)

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Algebraic classification of physical structures with zero. I

I. A. Firdman

Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: An algebraic version is considered of the axiomatization of physical structures. An arbitrary set $R$ with a distinguished element $O$ (zero) is taken as a set of measurements. Under an additional condition, understood to be an analog of the requirement that a physical structure is one-metric, the structure of a topological skew field with zero $O$ is introduced on $R$; and on the object sets $\mathcal M$ and $\mathcal N$, the structure of finite-dimensional vector spaces over the skew field is introduced. This leads to a complete classification of the corresponding physical structures. The classification theorem can be considered also as a variant of the axiomatics connected with a bilinear form on a pair of finite-dimensional vector spaces over a skew field; i.e., the variant which uses, as axioms, only the combinatorial properties of a bilinear form as a map $\mathcal M\times\mathcal N\to R$ (i.e., without the axioms of addition and multiplication).

UDC: 512.642.2:517.965

Received: 01.06.2005



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