Bose’s Photonic Mathematics Revisited: Entropic Optimization, Polylogarithmic Asymptotics, and Categorical Coherence from Symmetric Functions to ZX-Calculus
Abstract
This paper re-examines S. N. Bose’s foundational work on photon statistics, offering a deeper and
reframed perspective. It provides a full Lagrange-multiplier optimization of entropy and
reinterprets Bose’s combinatorics through categorical coherence, mapping it into symmetric
monoidal and ‡-compact structures with ZX-calculus examples.
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@article{deceuster2025_15-boses-photonic-ma,
title = {Bose’s Photonic Mathematics Revisited: Entropic Optimization, Polylogarithmic Asymptotics, and Categorical Coherence from Symmetric Functions to ZX-Calculus},
author = {De Ceuster, Peter},
year = {2025},
month = {08},
institution = {SIG Labs},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.16879032},
url = {https://peterdeceuster.uk/papers/15-boses-photonic-mathematics-revisited-entropic-optimization-polylogarithmic-asymptotics},
note = {Full text available at https://peterdeceuster.uk/articenter/work/bose.pdf}
}