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Tape diagrams provide a graphical representation for arrows of rig categories, namely categories equipped with two monoidal structures, $\oplus$ and $\otimes$, where $\otimes$ distributes over $\oplus$. However, their applicability is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Filippo Bonchi , Cipriano Junior Cioffo , Alessandro Di Giorgio , Elena Di Lavore

We introduce nominal string diagrams as, string diagrams internal in the category of nominal sets. This requires us to take nominal sets as a monoidal category, not with the cartesian product, but with the separated product. To this end, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Samuel Balco , Alexander Kurz

We introduce string diagrams for physical duoidal categories (normal $\otimes$-symmetric duoidal categories): they consist of string diagrams with wires forming a zigzag-free partial order and order-preserving nodes whose inputs and outputs…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Mario Román

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

String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about physical processes, logic circuits, tensor networks, and many other compositional structures. The distinguishing feature of these diagrams is that edges need not be connected to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-19 Lucas Dixon , Aleks Kissinger

Tape diagrams provide a convenient graphical notation for arrows of rig categories, i.e., categories equipped with two monoidal products, $\oplus$ and $\otimes$. In this work, we introduce Kleene-Cartesian rig categories, namely rig…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Filippo Bonchi , Alessandro Di Giorgio , Elena Di Lavore

A popular graphical calculus for monoidal categories makes computations tactile and intuitive. Complicated diagram chases can be expressed in a few pictures and discovered by playing with a shoelace. Joyal and Street's proof of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-05 David Jaz Myers

We introduce collages of string diagrams as a diagrammatic syntax for glueing multiple monoidal categories. Collages of string diagrams are interpreted as pointed bimodular profunctors. As the main examples of this technique, we introduce…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Dylan Braithwaite , Mario Román

Path calculus, or graphical linear algebra, is a string diagram calculus for the category of matrices over a base ring. It is the usual string diagram calculus for a symmetric monoidal category, where the monoidal product is the direct sum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 Simon Burton

Rig categories with finite biproducts are categories with two monoidal products, where one is a biproduct and the other distributes over it. In this work we present tape diagrams, a sound and complete diagrammatic language for these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Filippo Bonchi , Alessandro Di Giorgio , Alessio Santamaria

We develop a graphical calculus of manifold diagrams which generalises string and surface diagrams to arbitrary dimensions. Manifold diagrams are pasting diagrams for $(\infty, n)$-categories that admit a semi-strict composition operation…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Lukas Heidemann

Tape diagrams provide a convenient notation for arrows of rig categories, i.e., categories equipped with two monoidal products, $\oplus$ and $\otimes$, where $\otimes$ distributes over $\oplus $. In this work, we extend tape diagrams with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Filippo Bonchi , Alessandro Di Giorgio , Elena Di Lavore

Premonoidal categories are monoidal categories without the interchange law while effectful categories are premonoidal categories with a chosen monoidal subcategory of interchanging morphisms. In the same sense that string diagrams,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Mario Román , Paweł Sobociński

In this paper we give an expository account of quasistrict symmetric monoidal 2-categories, as introduced by Schommer-Pries. We reformulate the definition using a graphical calculus called wire diagrams, which facilitates computations and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Bruce Bartlett

Tape diagrams provide a graphical notation for categories equipped with two monoidal products, $\otimes$ and $\oplus$, where $\oplus$ is a biproduct. Recently, they have been generalised to handle Kleisli categories of arbitrary monoidal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Filippo Bonchi , Cipriano Junior Cioffo

The study of abstraction and composition - the focus of category theory - naturally leads to sophisticated diagrams which can encode complex algebraic semantics. Consequently, these diagrams facilitate a clearer visual comprehension of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Vincent Abbott , Gioele Zardini

We develop a purely set-theoretic formalism for binary trees and binary graphs. We define a category of binary automata, and display it as a fibred category over the category of binary graphs. We also relate the notion of binary graphs to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. Raghavendra

String diagrams are pictorial representations for morphisms of symmetric monoidal categories. They constitute an intuitive and expressive graphical syntax, which has found application in a very diverse range of fields including concurrency…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Aleksandar Milosavljevic , Robin Piedeleu , Fabio Zanasi

In category theory, the use of string diagrams is well known to aid in the intuitive understanding of certain concepts, particularly when dealing with adjunctions and monoidal categories. We show that string diagrams are also useful in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Kenji Nakahira

We enhance the calculus of string diagrams for monoidal categories with hierarchical features in order to capture closed monoidal (and cartesian closed) structure. Using this new syntax we formulate an automatic differentiation algorithm…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Mario Alvarez-Picallo , Dan R. Ghica , David Sprunger , Fabio Zanasi
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