Reversible monadic computing
Logic in Computer Science
2016-02-17 v1 Category Theory
Abstract
We extend categorical semantics of monadic programming to reversible computing, by considering monoidal closed dagger categories: the dagger gives reversibility, whereas closure gives higher-order expressivity. We demonstrate that Frobenius monads model the appropriate notion of coherence between the dagger and closure by reinforcing Cayley's theorem; by proving that effectful computations (Kleisli morphisms) are reversible precisely when the monad is Frobenius; by characterizing the largest reversible subcategory of Eilenberg-Moore algebras; and by identifying the latter algebras as measurements in our leading example of quantum computing. Strong Frobenius monads are characterized internally by Frobenius monoids.
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@article{arxiv.1505.04330,
title = {Reversible monadic computing},
author = {Chris Heunen and Martti Karvonen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.04330},
year = {2016}
}
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19 pages