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Symmetric monoidal categories (SMCs) are a common framework for reasoning about computation, focusing on the parallel and sequential compositionality of operations. String diagrams are a ubiquitous and powerful tool for reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Benjamin Caldwell , William Spencer , Aleks Kissinger , Robert Rand

This work considers the notion of random tensors and reviews some fundamental concepts in statistics when applied to a tensor based data or signal. In several engineering fields such as Communications, Signal Processing, Machine learning,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Divyanshu Pandey , Alexis Decurninge , Harry Leib

Coherence theorems for covariant structures carried by a category have traditionally relied on the underlying term rewriting system of the structure being terminating and confluent. While this holds in a variety of cases, it is not a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-31 Jonathan A. Cohen

Indexed monoidal algebras are introduced as an equivalent structure for self-dual compact closed categories, and a coherence theorem is proved for the category of such algebras. Turing automata and Turing graph machines are defined by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Miklós Bartha

We present a formalization in Lean 4, within the framework of the mathematical library Mathlib, of the unbiasing process for symmetric monoidal categories. This is realized by extending the data of a symmetric monoidal category to a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Robin Carlier

The theory of associative $n$-categories has recently been proposed as a strictly associative and unital approach to higher category theory. As a foundation for a proof assistant, this is potentially attractive, since it has the potential…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Lukas Heidemann , David Reutter , Jamie Vicary

Starting from a generalization of the standard axioms for a monoid we present a stepwise development of various, mutually equivalent foundational axiom systems for category theory. Our axiom sets have been formalized in the Isabelle/HOL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Christoph Benzmüller , Dana S. Scott

Eight categorical soundness and completeness theorems are established within the framework of algebraic theories. Exactly six of the eight deduction systems exhibit complete semantics within the cartesian monoidal category of sets. The…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-25 David Forsman

We develop a framework to analyse invariant decompositions of elements of tensor product spaces. Namely, we define an invariant decomposition with indices arranged on a simplicial complex, and which is explicitly invariant under a group…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Gemma De las Cuevas , Matt Hoogsteder Riera , Tim Netzer

MSO transductions are binary relations between structures which are defined using monadic second-order logic. MSO transductions form a category, since they are closed under composition. We show that many notions from language theory, such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Mikołaj Bojańczyk

We give a description of unital operads in a symmetric monoidal category as monoids in a monoidal category of unital $\Lambda$-sequences. This is a new variant of Kelly's old description of operads as monoids in the monoidal category of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-26 J. P. May , Ruoqi Zhang , Foling Zou

Tensor network methods are a conceptually elegant framework for encoding complicated datasets, where high-order tensors are approximated as networks of low-order tensors. In practice, however, the numeric implementation of tensor network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Glen Evenbly

This is a report on aspects of the theory and use of monoidal categories. The first section introduces the main concepts through the example of the category of vector spaces. String notation is explained and shown to lead naturally to a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Ross Street

Indexed symmetric monoidal categories are an important refinement of bicategories -- this structure underlies several familiar bicategories, including the homotopy bicategory of parametrized spectra, and its equivariant and fiberwise…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Cary Malkiewich , Kate Ponto

Presentations of categories are a well-known algebraic tool to provide descriptions of categories by means of generators, for objects and morphisms, and relations on morphisms. We generalize here this notion, in order to consider situations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Pierre-Louis Curien , Samuel Mimram

We introduce nominal string diagrams as, string diagrams internal in the category of nominal sets. This requires us to take nominal sets as a monoidal category, not with the cartesian product, but with the separated product. To this end, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Samuel Balco , Alexander Kurz

We introduce, for a symmetric fusion category $\mathcal{A}$ with Drinfeld centre $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{A})$, the notion of $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{A})$-crossed braided tensor category. These are categories that are enriched over…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Thomas A. Wasserman

We continue the study of enriched infinity categories, using a definition equivalent to that of Gepner and Haugseng. In our approach enriched infinity categories are associative monoids in an especially designed monoidal category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-06 V. Hinich

It is a classical theorem that the free product of ordered groups is orderable. In this note we show that, using a method of G. Bergman, an ordering of the free product can be constructed in a functorial manner, in the category of ordered…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Dale Rolfsen

In this paper, we introduce almost (strictly) semi-positive tensors, which extend the concept of almost (strictly) semimonotone matrices. Furthermore, we provide insights into the characteristics of the entries within these almost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Bharat Pratap Chauhan , Dipti Dubey