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In this paper we show how string rewriting methods can be applied to give a new method of computing double cosets. Previous methods for double cosets were enumerative and thus restricted to finite examples. Our rewriting methods do not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ronald Brown , Neil Ghani , Anne Heyworth , Christopher D. Wensley

We discuss some aspects of our work on the mechanization of syntax and semantics in the UniMath library, based on the proof assistant Coq. We focus on experiences where Coq (as a type-theoretic proof assistant with decidable typechecking)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Benedikt Ahrens , Ralph Matthes , Kobe Wullaert

Automated theorem proving, or more broadly automated reasoning, aims at using computer programs to automatically prove or disprove mathematical theorems and logical statements. It takes on an essential role across a vast array of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Zheng-Zhi Sun , Qi Ye , Dong-Ling Deng

With a view on applications in computing, in particular concurrency theory and higher-dimensional rewriting, we develop notions of $n$-fold monoid and comonoid objects in $n$-fold monoidal categories and bicategories. We present a series of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-07 James Cranch , Georg Struth

We introduce string diagrams as a formal mathematical, graphical language to represent, compose, program and reason about games. The language is well established in quantum physics, quantum computing and quantum linguistic with the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Jules Hedges , Evguenia Shprits , Viktor Winschel , Philipp Zahn

Turi and Plotkin's bialgebraic semantics is an abstract approach to specifying the operational semantics of a system, by means of a distributive law between its syntax (encoded as a monad) and its dynamics (an endofunctor). This setup is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Filippo Bonchi , Robin Piedeleu , Pawel Sobocinski , Fabio Zanasi

The algebraic zigzag construction has recently been introduced as a combinatorial foundation for a higher dimensional notion of string diagram. For use in a proof assistant, a layout algorithm is required to determine the optimal rendering…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Calin Tataru , Jamie Vicary

The algebraic properties of the combination of probabilistic choice and nondeterministic choice have long been a research topic in program semantics. This paper explains a formalization in the Coq proof assistant of a monad equipped with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Reynald Affeldt , Jacques Garrigue , David Nowak , Takafumi Saikawa

String diagrams can nicely express numerous computations in symmetric strict monoidal categories (SSMC). To be entirely exact, this is only true for props: the SSMCs whose monoid of objects are free. In this paper, we show a propification…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Titouan Carette

Many combinatorial proofs rely on induction. When these proofs are formulated in traditional language, they can be bulky and unmanageable. Coalgebras provide a language which can reduce reduce many inductive proofs in graded poset theory to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-07 MLE Slone

This thesis details a project to define a fully compositional theory of synchronous sequential circuits built from primitive components, motivated by applying techniques successfully used in programming languages to hardware. The first part…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-13 George Kaye

As the use and diversity of diagrams across many disciplines grows, there is an increasing interest in the diagrams research community concerning how such diversity might be documented and explained. In this article, we argue that one way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tuomo Hiippala , John A. Bateman

String diagrams provide an intuitive language for expressing networks of interacting processes graphically. A discrete representation of string diagrams, called string graphs, allows for mechanised equational reasoning by double-pushout…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Aleks Kissinger , Vladimir Zamdzhiev

Matching logic is a logical framework for specifying and reasoning about programs using pattern matching semantics. A pattern is made up of a number of structural components and constraints. Structural components are syntactically matched,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ádám Kurucz , Péter Bereczky , Dániel Horpácsi

In category theory, the use of string diagrams is well known to aid in the intuitive understanding of certain concepts, particularly when dealing with adjunctions and monoidal categories. We show that string diagrams are also useful in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Kenji Nakahira

Coalgebras generalize various kinds of dynamical systems occuring in mathematics and computer science. Examples of systems that can be modeled as coalgebras include automata and Markov chains. We will present a coalgebraic representation of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Frank Roumen

We introduce monoidal streams. Monoidal streams are a generalization of causal stream functions, which can be defined in cartesian monoidal categories, to arbitrary symmetric monoidal categories. In the same way that streams provide…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Elena Di Lavore , Giovanni de Felice , Mario Román

Control is a fundamental concept in quantum and reversible computational models. It enables the conditional application of a transformation to a system, depending on the state of another system. We introduce a general framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Noé Delorme , Simon Perdrix

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

This paper explores the application of automated planning to automated theorem proving, which is a branch of automated reasoning concerned with the development of algorithms and computer programs to construct mathematical proofs. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Alice Petrov , Christian Muise