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We introduce a novel approach to studying properties of processes in the {\pi}-calculus based on a processes-as-formulas interpretation, by establishing a correspondence between specific sequent calculus derivations and computation trees in…

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The class of type-two basic feasible functionals ($\mathtt{BFF}_2$) is the analogue of $\mathtt{FP}$ (polynomial time functions) for type-2 functionals, that is, functionals that can take (first-order) functions as arguments.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Patrick Baillot , Ugo Dal Lago , Cynthia Kop , Deivid Vale

Higher-order quantum theory is an extension of quantum theory where one introduces transformations whose input and output are transformations, thus generalizing the notion of channels and quantum operations. The generalization then goes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Alessandro Bisio , Paolo Perinotti

The concept of category from mathematics happens to be useful to computer programmers in many ways. Unfortunately, all "good" explanations of categories so far have been designed by mathematicians, or at least theoreticians with a strong…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Raphael Poss

In this paper, we show that theory of processes can be reduced to the theory of spatial logic. Firstly, we propose a spatial logic SL for higher order pi-calculus, and give an inference system of SL. The soundness and incompleteness of SL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Zining Cao

We propose a semantics for permutation equivalence in higher-order rewriting. This semantics takes place in cartesian closed 2-categories, and is proved sound and complete.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Tom Hirschowitz

The complexity of large-scale distributed systems, particularly when deployed in physical space, calls for new mechanisms to address composability and reusability of collective adaptive behaviour. Computational fields have been proposed as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Mirko Viroli , Giorgio Audrito , Ferruccio Damiani , Danilo Pianini , Jacob Beal

We examine the use of classes to formulate several categorical notions. This leads to two proposals: an explicit structure for working with subobjects, and a hierarchy of $k$-classes. We apply the latter to both ordinary and higher…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Paul Blain Levy

We show that an intuitionistic version of counting propositional logic corresponds, in the sense of Curry and Howard, to an expressive type system for the probabilistic event lambda-calculus, a vehicle calculus in which both call-by-name…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Melissa Antonelli , Ugo Dal Lago , Paolo Pistone

We consider the 3-category $2\mathfrak{C}at$ whose objects are 2-categories, 1-morphisms are lax functors, 2-morphisms are lax transformations and 3-morphisms are modifications. The aim is to show that it carries interesting…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Fei Xu , Maoyin Zhang

Psi-calculi is a parametric framework for extensions of the pi-calculus with data terms and arbitrary logics. In this framework there is no direct way to represent action priorities, where an action can execute only if all other enabled…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Johannes Åman Pohjola , Joachim Parrow

In quantum computing, the computation is achieved by linear operators in or between Hilbert spaces. In this work, we explore a new computation scheme, in which the linear operators in quantum computing are replaced by (higher) functors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Liang Kong , Hao Zheng

We present a proof system for a multimodal logic, based on our previous work on a multimodal Martin-Loef type theory. The specification of modes, modalities, and implications between them is given as a mode theory, i.e. a small 2-category.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-22 G. A. Kavvos , Daniel Gratzer

Linear logics have been shown to be able to embed both rewriting-based approaches and process calculi in a single, declarative framework. In this paper we are exploring the embedding of double-pushout graph transformations into quantified…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-12-01 Paolo Torrini , Reiko Heckel

Process theories combine a graphical language for compositional reasoning with an underlying categorical semantics. They have been successfully applied to fields such as quantum computation, natural language processing, linear dynamical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Dan Marsden , Fabrizio Genovese

Type systems as a way to control or analyze programs have been largely studied in the context of functional programming languages. Some of those work allow to extract from a typing derivation for a program a complexity bound on this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Patrick Baillot , Alexis Ghyselen

We present an innovative approach to dimensional analysis, referred to as augmented dimensional analysis and based on a representation theorem for complete quantity functions with a scaling-covariant scalar representation. This new theorem,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Dan Jonsson

The pi-calculus is a widely used process calculus, which models communications between processes and allows the passing of communication links. Various operational semantics of the pi-calculus have been proposed, which can be classified…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Eva Graversen , Iain Phillips , Nobuko Yoshida

In this paper, we establish the foundations of a novel logical framework for the {\pi}-calculus, based on the deduction-as-computation paradigm. Following the standard proof-theoretic interpretation of logic programming, we represent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Matteo Acclavio , Giulia Manara

Proof theory provides a foundation for studying and reasoning about programming languages, most directly based on the well-known Curry-Howard isomorphism between intuitionistic logic and the typed lambda-calculus. More recently, a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Farzaneh Derakhshan , Frank Pfenning