Dagger Symmetric Monoidal Category - Examples

Examples

The following categories are examples of dagger symmetric monoidal categories:

  • The category Rel of sets and relations where the tensor is given by the product and where the dagger of a relation is given by its relational converse.
  • The category FdHilb of finite dimensional Hilbert spaces is a dagger symmetric monoidal category where the tensor is the usual tensor product of Hilbert spaces and where the dagger of a linear map is given by its hermitian adjoint.

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