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An algebraic left Kan extension is a left Kan extension which interacts well with the algebraic structure present in the given situation, and these appear in various subjects such as the homotopy theory of operads and in the study of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Mark Weber

Notions of computation can be modelled by monads. Algebraic effects offer a characterization of monads in terms of algebraic operations and equational axioms, where operations are basic programming features, such as reading or updating the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Cristina Matache , Sam Lindley , Sean Moss , Sam Staton , Nicolas Wu , Zhixuan Yang

Monads in category theory are algebraic structures that can be used to model computational effects in programming languages. We show how the notion of "centre", and more generally "centrality", i.e. the property for an effect to commute…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-31 TItouan Carette , Louis Lemonnier , Vladimir Zamdzhiev

There are different notions of computation, the most popular being monads, applicative functors, and arrows. In this article we show that these three notions can be seen as monoids in a monoidal category. We demonstrate that at this level…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Exequiel Rivas , Mauro Jaskelioff

Computational effects are commonly modelled by monads, but often a monad can be presented by an algebraic theory of operations and equations. This talk is about monads and algebraic theories for languages for inference, and their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Cristina Matache , Sean Moss , Sam Staton , Ariadne Si Suo

We propose another interpretation of well-known derivatives computations from regular expressions, due to Brzozowski, Antimirov or Lombardy and Sakarovitch, in order to abstract the underlying data structures (e.g. sets or linear…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Samira Attou , Ludovic Mignot , Clément Miklarz , Florent Nicart

Quantitative algebras are algebras enriched in the category $\mathsf{Met}$ of metric spaces so that all operations are nonexpanding. Mardare, Plotkin and Panangaden introduced varieties (aka $1$-basic varieties) as classes of quantitative…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Jiří Adámek , Matěj Dostál , Jiří Velebil

This text, based on the author's Bachelor's thesis, introduces the theory of Algebraic Operads, a mathematical formalism that provides a unifying framework for modern algebra. We demonstrate how the fundamental theories of associative,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Felicia Ferraioli

Varieties of quantitative algebras are fully described by their free-algebra monads on the category Met of metric spaces. For a longer time it has been an open problem whether the resulting enriched monads are precisely the strongly…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Jiri Adamek

We characterize the equational theories and Lawvere theories that correspond to the categories of analytic and polynomial monads on Set, and hence also the categories of the symmetric and rigid operads in Set. We show that the category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Stanisław Szawiel , Marek Zawadowski

The goal of this article is to describe several presentations of the infinity category of algebras over some monad on the infinity category of chain complexes.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Brice Le Grignou

In this paper, motivated by the theory of operads and PROPs we reveal the combinatorial nature of tensor calculus for strict tensor categories and show that there exists a monad which is described by the coarse-graining of graphs and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Sen Hu , Xuexing Lu , Yu Ye

In this paper we show how the theory of monads can be used to deduce in a uniform manner several duality theorems involving categories of relations on one side and categories of algebras with homomorphisms preserving only some operations on…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Dirk Hofmann , Pedro Nora

The theory of operads (May, cyclic, modular, PROPs, etc) is extended to include higher dimensional phenomena, i.e. operations between operations, mimicking the algebraic structure on varieties of arbitrary dimensions, having marked…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2010-12-16 Dennis Borisov

Profinite equations are an indispensable tool for the algebraic classification of formal languages. Reiterman's theorem states that they precisely specify pseudovarieties, i.e. classes of finite algebras closed under finite products,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Liang-Ting Chen , Jiri Adamek , Stefan Milius , Henning Urbat

One way of interpreting a left Kan extension is as taking a kind of "partial colimit", whereby one replaces parts of a diagram by their colimits. We make this intuition precise by means of the "partial evaluations" sitting in the so-called…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Paolo Perrone , Walter Tholen

Clones are specializations of operads forming powerful instruments to describe varieties of algebras wherein repeating variables are allowed in their equations. They allow us in this way to realize and study a large range of algebraic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Samuele Giraudo

Quasi-trees generalize trees in that the unique "path" between two nodes may be infinite and have any countable order type. They are used to define the rank-width of a countable graph in such a way that it is equal to the least upper-bound…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bruno Courcelle

The theory of regular cost functions is a quantitative extension to the classical notion of regularity. A cost function associates to each input a non-negative integer value (or infinity), as opposed to languages which only associate to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Colcombet

We study and describe possibilities for arities of elementary theories and of their expansions. Links for arities with respect to Boolean algebras, to disjoint unions and to compositions of structures are shown. The dynamics for arities of…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Sergey V. Sudoplatov