The Expectation Monad in Quantum Foundations

The expectation monad is introduced abstractly via two composable adjunctions, but concretely captures measures. It turns out to sit in between known monads: on the one hand the distribution and ultrafilter monad, and on the other hand the continuation monad. This expectation monad is used in two pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bart Jacobs, Jorik Mandemaker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2012-10-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.3805v2