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We introduce the calculus of neo-Peircean relations, a string diagrammatic extension of the calculus of binary relations that has the same expressivity as first order logic and comes with a complete axiomatisation. The axioms are obtained…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Filippo Bonchi , Alessandro Di Giorgio , Nathan Haydon , Pawel Sobocinski

Multi-model databases are designed to store, manage, and query data in various models, such as relational, hierarchical, and graph data, simultaneously. In this paper, we provide a theoretical basis for querying categorical databases. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiaheng Lu

These notes present the essentials of first- and second-order monadic logics on strings with introductory purposes. We discuss Monadic First-Order logic and show that it is strictly less expressive than Finite-State Automata, in that it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Dino Mandrioli , Davide Martinenghi , Angelo Morzenti , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

We adapt the notion of an algebraic theory to work in the setting of quasicategories developed recently by Joyal and Lurie. We develop the general theory at some length. We study one extended example in detail: the theory of commutative…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-09 James Cranch

We present a unified theory for formal mathematical systems including recursive systems closely related to formal grammars, including the predicate calculus as well as a formal induction principle. We introduce recursive systems generating…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Matthias Kunik

We define a monoidal semantics for algebraic theories. The basis for the definition is provided by the analysis of the structural rules in the term calculus of algebraic languages. Models are described both explicitly, in a form that…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Luca Mauri

We extend our approach to abstract syntax (with binding constructions) through modules and linearity. First we give a new general definition of arity, yielding the companion notion of signature. Then we obtain a modularity result as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Andre' Hirschowitz , Marco Maggesi

Our approach to higher order Fourier analysis is to study the ultra product of finite (or compact) Abelian groups on which a new algebraic theory appears. This theory has consequences on finite (or compact) groups usually in the form of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-09 Balazs Szegedy

Many applications of denotational semantics, such as higher-order model checking or the complexity of normalization, rely on finite semantics for monomorphic type systems. We exhibit such a finite semantics for a polymorphic purely linear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Lê Thành Dũng Nguyên

Permutations can be viewed as pairs of linear orders, or more formally as models over a signature consisting of two binary relation symbols. This approach was adopted by Albert, Bouvel and F\'eray, who studied the expressibility of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Vít Jelínek , Michal Opler

There are two possible computational interpretations of second-order arithmetic: Girard's system F or Spector's bar recursion and its variants. While the logic is the same, the programs obtained from these two interpretations have a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Valentin Blot

Many important computational structures involve an intricate interplay between algebraic features (given by operations on the underlying set) and relational features (taking account of notions such as order or distance). This paper…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jan Jurka , Stefan Milius , Henning Urbat

Possibilistic logic, an extension of first-order logic, deals with uncertainty that can be estimated in terms of possibility and necessity measures. Syntactically, this means that a first-order formula is equipped with a possibility degree…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Bernhard Hollunder

Universal algebra uniformly captures various algebraic structures, by expressing them as equational theories or abstract clones. The ubiquity of algebraic structures in mathematics and related fields has given rise to several variants of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Soichiro Fujii

A class of second-order differential equations commonly arising in physics applications are considered, and their explicit hypergeometric solutions are provided. Further, the relationship with the Generalized and Universal Associated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Keegan L. A. Kirk , Kyle R. Bryenton , Nasser Saad

The author has recently introduced an abstract algebraic framework of analogical proportions within the general setting of universal algebra. The purpose of this paper is to lift that framework from universal algebra to the strictly more…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Christian Antić

The primary goal of this paper is to present a unified way to transform the syntax of a logic system into certain initial algebraic structure so that it can be studied algebraically. The algebraic structures which one may choose for this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-10-20 Zhaohua Luo

We give an algebraic characterisation of first-order logic with the neighbour relation, on finite words. For this, we consider languages of finite words over alphabets with an involution on them. The natural algebras for such languages are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Amaldev Manuel , Dhruv Nevatia

In this paper, first-order logic is interpreted in the framework of universal algebra, using the clone theory developed in three previous papers. We first define the free clone T(L, C) of terms of a first order language L over a set C of…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-04-26 Zhaohua Luo

This paper aims to provide an analysis of what it means when we say that a pair of theories, very generously construed, are equivalent in the sense that they are interdefinable. With regard to theories articulated in first order logic, we…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Toby Meadows