Coinductive control of inductive data types
Category Theory
2023-07-21 v2 Logic in Computer Science
Abstract
We combine the theory of inductive data types with the theory of universal measurings. By doing so, we find that many categories of algebras of endofunctors are actually enriched in the corresponding category of coalgebras of the same endofunctor. The enrichment captures all possible partial algebra homomorphisms, defined by measuring coalgebras. Thus this enriched category carries more information than the usual category of algebras which captures only total algebra homomorphisms. We specify new algebras besides the initial one using a generalization of the notion of initial algebra.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2303.16793,
title = {Coinductive control of inductive data types},
author = {Paige Randall North and Maximilien Péroux},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.16793},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
22 pages, to appear in 10th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2023)