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Categories of polymorphic lenses in computer science, and of open games in compositional game theory, have a curious structure that is reminiscent of compact closed categories, but differs in some crucial ways. Specifically they have a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Jules Hedges

Let K be a comonad on a model category M. We provide conditions under which the associated category of K-coalgebras admits a model category structure such that the forgetful functor to M creates both cofibrations and weak equivalences. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Kathryn Hess , Brooke Shipley

We develop a symmetric monoidal closed category of games, incorporating sums and products, to model quantum computation at higher types. This model is expressive, capable of representing all unitary operators at base types. It is compatible…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Samson Abramsky , Radha Jagadeesan

This paper contributes to a theory of the behaviour of "finite-state" systems that is generic in the system type. We propose that such systems are modelled as coalgebras with a finitely generated carrier for an endofunctor on a locally…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Stefan Milius , Dirk Pattinson , Thorsten Wißmann

We present a novel coalgebraic formulation of infinite extensive games. We define both the game trees and the strategy profiles by possibly infinite systems of corecursive equations. Certain strategy profiles are proved to be subgame…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Samson Abramsky , Viktor Winschel

In his recent and exploratory work on template games and linear logic, Melli\`es defines sequential and concurrent games as categories with positions as objects and trajectories as morphisms, labelled by a specific synchronization template.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Melliès Paul-André

This paper extends the self-referential framework of Alpay Algebra into a multi-layered semantic game architecture where transfinite fixed-point convergence encompasses hierarchical sub-games at each iteration level. Building upon Alpay…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Bugra Kilictas , Faruk Alpay

We present a new theoretical framework that unifies category-theoretic fixed-point constructions, transfinite recursion, and game-based semantics to model how interpretations of language can stabilize through unlimited self-reference. By…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Faruk Alpay , Hamdi Al Alakkad

The operational semantics of interactive systems is usually described by labeled transition systems. Abstract semantics (that is defined in terms of bisimilarity) is characterized by the final morphism in some category of coalgebras. Since…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Filippo Bonchi , Ugo Montanari

In this contribution we investigate several extensions of the powerset that comprise arbitrarily nested subsets, and call them superpower set. This allows the definition of graphs with possibly infinitely nested nodes. additionally we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Julia Padberg

The main goal of this paper is to settle a conceptual framework for cooperative game theory in which the notion of composition/aggregation of games is the defining structure. This is done via the mathematical theory of algebraic operads: we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Dylan Laplace Mermoud , Victor Roca i Lucio

This paper contributes to a theory of the behaviour of "finite-state" systems that is generic in the system type. We propose that such systems are modeled as coalgebras with a finitely generated carrier for an endofunctor on a locally…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Stefan Milius , Dirk Pattinson , Thorsten Wißmann

Combinatorial games are widely used in finite model theory, constraint satisfaction, modal logic and concurrency theory to characterize logical equivalences between structures. In particular, Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games, pebble games, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Samson Abramsky , Nihil Shah

We develop an abstract operator-algebraic characterization of robust self-testing for synchronous correlations and games. Specifically, we show that a synchronous correlation is a robust self-test if and only if there is a unique state on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Prem Nigam Kar

We present a categorical model for intuitionistic linear logic where objects are polynomial diagrams and morphisms are simulation diagrams. The multiplicative structure (tensor product and its adjoint) can be defined in any locally…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Pierre Hyvernat

We develop a method for the transfer of perfect strategies between various classes of two-player, one round cooperative non-local games with quantum inputs and outputs using the simulation paradigm in quantum information theory. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Gage Hoefer

Traces form a coarse notion of semantic equivalence between states of a process, and have been studied coalgebraically for various types of system. We instantiate the finitary coalgebraic trace semantics framework of Hasuo et al. for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Benjamin Plummer , Corina Cirstea

Definable zero-sum stochastic games involve a finite number of states and action sets, reward and transition functions that are definable in an o-minimal structure. Prominent examples of such games are finite, semi-algebraic or globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Jérôme Bolte , Stéphane Gaubert , Guillaume Vigeral

Game comonads have brought forth a new approach to studying finite model theory categorically. By representing model comparison games semantically as comonads, they allow important logical and combinatorial properties to be exressed in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Samson Abramsky , Tomáš Jakl , Thomas Paine

Categorical models of the exponential modality of linear logic will often, but not always, support an operation of differentiation. When they do, we speak of a monoidal differential modality; when they do not, we have merely a monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Richard Garner , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay