We introduce an analogue for Lip-normed operator systems of the second author’s order-unit quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance and prove that it is equal to the first author’s complete distance. This enables us to consolidate the basic theory of what might be called operator Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. In particular we establish a completeness theorem and deduce continuity in quantum tori, Bere...

We introduce an analogue for Lip-normed operator systems of the second author’s order-unit quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance and prove that it is equal to the first author’s complete distance. This enables us to consolidate the basic theory of what might be called operator Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. In particular we establish a completeness theorem and deduce continuity in quantum tori, Bere...

We introduce an analogue for Lip-normed operator systems of the second author’s order-unit quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance and prove that it is Lipschitz equivalent to the first author’s complete distance. This enables us to consolidate the basic theory of what might be called operator Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. In particular we establish a completeness theorem and deduce continuity in qua...

The Cayley-Dickson loop Cn is the multiplicative closure of basic elements of the algebra constructed by n applications of the Cayley-Dickson doubling process (the first few examples of such algebras are real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions, octonions, sedenions). We will discuss properties of the Cayley-Dickson loops, show that these loops are Hamiltonian and describe the structure of th...

It is the aim of this paper to compute the category of Eilenberg-Moore algebras for the monad arising from the dual unit-ball functor on the category of (semi)normed spaces. We show that this gives rise to a stronger algebraic structure than the totally convex one obtained from the closed unit ball functor on the category of Banach spaces.

A classical result asserts that the complex projective plane modulo complex conjugation is the 4-dimensional sphere. We generalize this result in two directions by considering the projective planes over the normed real division algebras and by considering the complexifications of these four projective planes.

C ∗-algebras are widely used in mathematical physics to represent the observables of physical systems, and are sometimes taken as the starting point for rigorous formulations of quantum mechanics and classical statistical mechanics. Nevertheless, in many cases the näıve choice of an algebra of observables does not admit a C∗-algebra structure, and some massaging is necessary. In this paper we i...