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We investigate bisimulation equivalence on Petri nets under durational semantics. Our motivation was to verify the conjecture that in durational setting, the bisimulation equivalence checking problem becomes more tractable than in ordinary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Slawomir Lasota , Marcin Poturalski

We consider approaches for causal semantics of Petri nets, explicitly representing dependencies between transition occurrences. For one-safe nets or condition/event-systems, the notion of process as defined by Carl Adam Petri provides a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Rob van Glabbeek , Ursula Goltz , Jens-Wolfhard Schicke

We define a notion of symmetric monoidal closed (SMC) theory, consisting of a SMC signature augmented with equations, and describe the classifying categories of such theories in terms of proof nets.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-06-08 Richard Garner , Tom Hirschowitz , Aurélien Pardon

Layered monoidal theories provide a categorical framework for studying scientific theories at different levels of abstraction, via string diagrammatic algebra. We introduce models for three closely related classes of layered monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Leo Lobski , Fabio Zanasi

We classify all additive invariants of open Petri nets: these are $\mathbb{N}$-valued invariants which are additive with respect to sequential and parallel composition of open Petri nets. In particular, we prove two classification theorems:…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , Sophie Libkind , Jordy Lopez Garcia , Layla Sorkatti , Samuel Tenka

This paper gives an explicit description of the categorical operad whose algebras are precisely symmetric monoidal categories. This allows us to place the operad in a sequence of four, and therefore a sequence of four successively stricter…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-26 A. D. Elmendorf

Petri nets are an established graphical formalism for modeling and analyzing the behavior of systems. An important consideration of the value of Petri nets is their use in describing both the syntax and semantics of modeling formalisms.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Sabah Al-Fedaghi , Dana Shbeeb

In this short note, we classify linear categorified open topological field theories in dimension two by pivotal Grothendieck-Verdier categories, a type of monoidal category equipped with a weak, not necessarily rigid duality. In combination…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Lukas Müller , Lukas Woike

We present an embedding of Petri nets into B abstract systems. The embedding is achieved by translating both the static structure (modelling aspect) and the evolution semantics of Petri nets. The static structure of a Petri-net is captured…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christian Attiogbe

The notion of proof-net category defined in this paper is closely related to graphs implicit in proof nets for the multiplicative fragment without constant propositions of linear logic. Analogous graphs occur in Kelly's and Mac Lane's…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Dosen , Z. Petric

This paper describes a stand-alone, no-frills tool supporting the analysis of (labelled) place/transition Petri nets and the synthesis of labelled transition systems into Petri nets. It is implemented as a collection of independent,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Eike Best , Uli Schlachter

Graph transformation systems (GTS) have been successfully proposed as a general, theoretically sound model for concurrency. Petri nets (PN), on the other side, are a central and intuitive formalism for concurrent or distributed systems,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Lorenzo Capra

We construct a compact closed category out of any symmetric monoidal category by freely adding adjoints to its objects. The morphisms of the completion are defined as string diagrams annotated by objects and morphisms from the original…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Antonin Delpeuch

We study monoidal categories that enjoy a certain weakening of the rigidity property, namely, the existence of a dualizing object in the sense of Grothendieck and Verdier. We call them Grothendieck-Verdier categories. Notable examples…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Mitya Boyarchenko , Vladimir Drinfeld

This article is intended as a reference guide to various notions of monoidal categories and their associated string diagrams. It is hoped that this will be useful not just to mathematicians, but also to physicists, computer scientists, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Peter Selinger

In this work, we analyse Petri nets where places are allowed to have a negative number of tokens. For each net we build its correspondent category of executions, which is compact closed, and prove that this procedure is functorial. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Fabrizio Genovese , Jelle Herold

We define a monoidal semantics for algebraic theories. The basis for the definition is provided by the analysis of the structural rules in the term calculus of algebraic languages. Models are described both explicitly, in a form that…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Luca Mauri

Recent work by the authors equips Petri occurrence nets (PN) with probability distributions which fully replace nondeterminism. To avoid the so-called confusion problem, the construction imposes additional causal dependencies which restrict…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Roberto Bruni , Hernán Melgratti , Ugo Montanari

Algebraic theories with dependency between sorts form the structural core of Martin-L\"of type theory and similar systems. Their denotational semantics are typically studied using categorical techniques; many different categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benedikt Ahrens , Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine , Paige Randall North

The recently introduced notions of guarded traced (monoidal) category and guarded (pre-)iterative monad aim at unifying different instances of partial iteration whilst keeping in touch with the established theory of total iteration and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Sergey Goncharov , Julian Jakob , Renato Neves