arXiv · 2602.21898
Quantales carrying ortholattice structure
Abstract
This paper investigates the intersection of residuated structures from many-valued logic and orthomodular lattices from quantum logic. We explore whether non-Boolean structures can simultaneously satisfy residuation principles and orthocomplementation requirements. Our main contribution is a study of Girard posets with inversions, providing a characterization theorem where a unital residuated poset is Girard if and only if it admits an inversion satisfying specific adjointness conditions. We prove that any complemented lattice admitting an integral residuated structure must be Boolean, which motivates our search for orthomodular examples in the non-integral case. We answer this by demonstrating that the lattice $C(\mathbb{R}^n)$ of closed subspaces of $n$-dimensional real coordinate space carries both an orthomodular and a commutative Girard quantale structure. This construction provides a concrete non-Boolean framework unifying quantum-logical and many-valued logical reasoning.
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Michal Botur, David Kruml, Jan Paseka. 2026-02-25. Quantales carrying ortholattice structure. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21898
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