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We develop a notion of iterated monoidal category and show that this notion corresponds in a precise way to the notion of iterated loop space. Specifically the group completion of the nerve of such a category is an iterated loop space and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Balteanu , Z. Fiedorowicz , R. Schwaenzl , R. Vogt

The categorical compositional approach to meaning has been successfully applied in natural language processing, outperforming other models in mainstream empirical language processing tasks. We show how this approach can be generalized to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Joe Bolt , Bob Coecke , Fabrizio Genovese , Martha Lewis , Dan Marsden , Robin Piedeleu

We present a complete logic for reasoning with functional dependencies (FDs) with semantics defined over classes of commutative integral partially ordered monoids and complete residuated lattices. The dependencies allow us to express…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Vilem Vychodil

This paper presents preliminary work on a general system for integrating dependent types into substructural type systems such as linear logic and linear type theory. Prior work on this front has generally managed to deliver type systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-30 C. B. Aberlé

We introduce monoidal streams: a generalization of causal stream functions to monoidal categories. In the same way that streams provide semantics to dataflow programming with pure functions, monoidal streams provide semantics to dataflow…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Elena Di Lavore , Giovanni de Felice , Mario Román

We present a survey of characterisations of cocartesian categories in terms of monoidal categories - and, more generally, magmal categories - satisfying additional properties. In particular, we show that the following are equivalent for a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Nathanael Arkor

We present an expository overview of the monoidal structures in the category of linearly compact vector spaces. Bimonoids in this category are the natural duals of infinite-dimensional bialgebras. We classify the relations on words whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Eric Marberg

Categorical compositional distributional semantics is an approach to modelling language that combines the success of vector-based models of meaning with the compositional power of formal semantics. However, this approach was developed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Martha Lewis

The categorical models of the differential lambda-calculus are additive categories because of the Leibniz rule which requires the summation of two expressions. This means that, as far as the differential lambda-calculus and differential…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Thomas Ehrhard

We describe a generic construction of non-wellfounded syntax involving variable binding and its monadic substitution operation. Our construction of the syntax and its substitution takes place in category theory, notably by using monoidal…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ralph Matthes , Kobe Wullaert , Benedikt Ahrens

We introduce a theory for encoding and manipulating algebraic data on categories via $\textit{concentration structures}$, which are equivalence relations on morphisms that satisfy certain axioms. For any category with a concentration…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Yangxiao Luo , Shunyu Wan

The article proposes a method for constructing non-standard theories based on terms from partially existing sequences of elements. The method is illustrated by the example of the theory of monoids. Predicates and terms from non-standard…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-31 V. M. Zhuravlov

This article gives a solid theoretical grounding to the observation that cubical structures arise naturally when working with parametricity. We claim that cubical models are cofreely parametric. We use categories, lex categories or clans as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Hugo Moeneclaey

The data for many useful bidirectional constructions in applied category theory (optics, learners, games, quantum combs) can be expressed in terms of diagrams containing "holes" or "incomplete parts", sometimes known as comb diagrams. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Mario Román

We define the monoidal category $(Poly_E,y,\triangleleft)$ of polynomials under composition in any category $E$ with finite limits, including both cartesian and vertical morphisms of polynomials, and generalize to this setting the Dirichlet…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Brandon T. Shapiro , David I. Spivak

Cartesian reverse differential categories (CRDCs) are a recently defined structure which categorically model the reverse differentiation operations used in supervised learning. Here we define a related structure called a monoidal reverse…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Geoffrey Cruttwell , Jonathan Gallagher , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay , Dorette Pronk

One goal of applied category theory is to better understand networks appearing throughout science and engineering. Here we introduce "structured cospans" as a way to study networks with inputs and outputs. Given a functor $L \colon…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-11 John C. Baez , Kenny Courser

This article offers an intuitive introduction to monoidal categories through the lens of painting, presenting abstract mathematical concepts with visual and tactile analogies. Aimed at curious undergraduates and non-specialists, it seeks to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Khyathi Komalan

It is common to encounter symmetric monoidal categories $\mathcal{C}$ for which every object is equipped with an algebraic structure, in a way that is compatible with the monoidal product and unit in $\mathcal{C}$. We define this formally…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Brendan Fong , David I Spivak

If $\mathcal{C}$ is a cocomplete monoidal category in which tensoring from both sides preserves coequalizers, then the category of monoids over $\mathcal{C}$ is cocomplete. The same holds if $\mathcal{C}$ has regular factorizations and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Hans-E. Porst