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The powerset construction is a standard method for converting a nondeterministic automaton into a deterministic one recognizing the same language. In this paper, we lift the powerset construction from automata to the more general framework…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Alexandra Silva , Filippo Bonchi , Marcello Bonsangue , Jan Rutten

We present a collection of results that imply that an endofunctor on a category has a terminal object obtainable as a countable limit of its terminal-coalgebra chain. This holds for finitary endofunctors preserving nonempty binary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiří Adámek , Stefan Milius , Lawrence S. Moss

A special final coalgebra theorem, in the style of Aczel's, is proved within standard Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. Aczel's Anti-Foundation Axiom is replaced by a variant definition of function that admits non-well-founded constructions.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Lawrence C. Paulson

In a category with enough limits and colimits, one can form the universal automorphism on an endomorphism in two dual senses. Sometimes these dual constructions coincide, as in the categories of finite sets, finite-dimensional vector…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Tom Leinster

Coalgebras for analytic functors uniformly model graph-like systems where the successors of a state may admit certain symmetries. Examples of successor structure include ordered tuples, cyclic lists and multisets. Motivated by goals in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Anton Chernev , Corina Cîrstea , Helle Hvid Hansen , Clemens Kupke

K\"onig's lemma is a fundamental result about trees with countless applications in mathematics and computer science. In contrapositive form, it states that if a tree is finitely branching and well-founded (i.e. has no infinite paths), then…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Henning Urbat , Thorsten Wißmann

A simple criterion for a functor to be finitary is presented: we call $F$ finitely bounded if for all objects $X$ every finitely generated subobject of $FX$ factorizes through the $F$-image of a finitely generated subobject of $X$. This is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Jiří Adámek , Stefan Milius , Lurdes Sousa , Thorsten Wißmann

It is shown, for a given graph group $G$, that the fixed point subgroup Fix$\,\varphi$ is finitely generated for every endomorphism $\varphi$ of $G$ if and only if $G$ is a free product of free abelian groups. The same conditions hold for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Emanuele Rodaro , Pedro V. Silva , Mihalis Sykiotis

We study the finitary version of the coalgebraic logic introduced by L. Moss. The syntax of this logic, which is introduced uniformly with respect to a coalgebraic type functor, required to preserve weak pullbacks, extends that of classical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Clemens Kupke , Alexander Kurz , Yde Venema

In this paper we show how the abstract behaviours of higher-order systems can be modelled as final coalgebras of suitable behavioural functors. These functors have the challenging peculiarity to be circularly defined with their own final…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Marco Peressotti

We address the task of deriving fixpoint equations from modal logics characterizing behavioural equivalences and metrics (summarized under the term conformances). We rely on earlier work that obtains Hennessy-Milner theorems as corollaries…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Harsh Beohar , Sebastian Gurke , Barbara König , Karla Messing , Jonas Forster , Lutz Schröder , Paul Wild

We extend Barr's well-known characterization of the final coalgebra of a $Set$-endofunctor as the completion of its initial algebra to the Eilenberg-Moore category of algebras for a $Set$-monad $\mathbf{M}$ for functors arising as liftings.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-07 Adriana Balan , Alexander Kurz

We present a finitary version of Moss' coalgebraic logic for $T$-coalgebras, where $T$ is a locally monotone endofunctor of the category of posets and monotone maps. The logic uses a single cover modality whose arity is given by the least…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Marta Bílková , Matěj Dostál

Let $K$ be a field and $f:\mathbb{P}^N \to \mathbb{P}^N$ a morphism. There is a natural conjugation action on the space of such morphisms by elements of the projective linear group $\text{PGL}_{N+1}$. The group of automorphisms, or…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Joao Alberto de Faria , Benjamin Hutz

We consider the equivalence of Lawvere theories and finitary monads on Set from the perspective of Endf(Set)-enriched category theory, where Endf(Set) is the category of finitary endofunctors of Set. We identify finitary monads with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-12 Richard Garner

We consider the subgroup of points of finite orbit through the action of an endomorphism of a virtually free group, with particular emphasis on the subgroup of eventually fixed points, EvFix($\varphi$): points whose orbit contains a fixed…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-12 André Carvalho

Alpay Algebra is introduced as a universal, category-theoretic framework that unifies classical algebraic structures with modern needs in symbolic recursion and explainable AI. Starting from a minimal list of axioms, we model each algebra…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Faruk Alpay

We develop a uniform coalgebraic approach to J\'onsson-Tarski and Thomason type dualities for various classes of neighborhood frames and neighborhood algebras. In the first part of the paper we construct an endofunctor on the category of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Guram Bezhanishvili , Nick Bezhanishvili , Jim de Groot

We study several structure aspects of functor categories from a small additive category to a module category, in particular the category F(A,K) of functors from finitely generated free modules over a commutative ring A to vector spaces over…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Aurélien Djament , Antoine Touzé

We introduce continuation semantics for both fixpoint modal logic (FML) and Computation Tree Logic* (CTL*), parameterised by a choice of branching type and quantitative predicate lifting. Our main contribution is proving that they are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ryota Kojima , Corina Cirstea