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After a discussion on property lattices, I introduce a category of such latticesand structure-preserving maps. A careful analysis of the notions of physicalsystem and of subsystem leads to the construction of a particular family ofmorphisms that are used for the construction of the coproduct in this category.
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Valckenborgh, F. On Subsystem Recognition in Compound Physical Systems. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 39, 939–945 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003699518261
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