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We put Mielnik's construction of the convex set of all states of a physical system in the general frame of category theory and give topological details lacking in previous papers on the subject.
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Posiewnik, A. Category theoretical construction of the figure of states. Int J Theor Phys 24, 193–200 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00672653
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