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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

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

For every finitary set functor F we demonstrate that free algebras carry a canonical partial order. In case F is bicontinuous, we prove that the cpo obtained as the conservative completion of the free algebra is the free completely…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Jiri Adamek

A finitary propositional logic can be given an algebraic reading in two different ways: by translating formulas into equations and logical rules into quasi-equations, or by translating logical rules directly into equations. The former type…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Michele Pra Baldi , Adam Přenosil

We consider two endofunctors of the form $~F:X\longrightarrow M\otimes X~$, where $~M~$ is a non degenerate module, related to the unit interval and the Sierpinski gasket, and their final co-algebras. The functors are defined on the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Annanthakrishna Manokaran , Romaine Jayewardene , Jayampathy Ratnayake

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

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

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

Fixpoint operators are tools to reason on recursive programs and data types obtained by induction (e.g. lists, trees) or coinduction (e.g. streams). They were given a categorical treatment with the notion of categories with fixpoints. A…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zeinab Galal

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 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 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

The Initial Algebra Theorem by Trnkov\'a et al.~states, under mild assumptions, that an endofunctor has an initial algebra provided it has a pre-fixed point. The proof crucially depends on transfinitely iterating the functor and in fact…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Jiří Adámek , Stefan Milius , Lawrence S. Moss

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

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

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

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

Logical frameworks provide natural and direct ways of specifying and reasoning within deductive systems. The logical framework LF and subsequent developments focus on finitary proof systems, making the formalization of circular proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhibo Chen , Frank Pfenning

We present a model-theoretic property of finite structures, that can be seen to be a finitary analogue of the well-studied downward L\"owenheim-Skolem property from classical model theory. We call this property as the…

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