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This article presents a novel algorithmic methodology for performing automated diagrammatic deductions over combinatorial structures, using a combination of modified equational theorem-proving techniques and the extended Wolfram model…

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We extend the previously established zesting techniques from fusion categories to general tensor categories. In particular we consider the category of comodules over a Hopf algebra, providing a detailed translation of the categorical…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Iván Angiono , César Galindo , Giovanny Mora

We introduce the Scalable ZX-calculus (SZX-calculus for short), a formal and compact graphical language for the design and verification of quantum computations. The SZX-calculus is an extension of the ZX-calculus, a powerful framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Titouan Carette , Dominic Horsman , Simon Perdrix

We study sheaves in the context of a duality theory for lattice structure endowed with extra operations, and in the context of forcing in a topos. Using Sheaf duality theory of Comer for cylindric algebras, we give a representation theorem…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Trek Sayed Ahmed

We introduce a simple extension of the $\lambda$-calculus with pairs---called the distributive $\lambda$-calculus---obtained by adding a computational interpretation of the valid distributivity isomorphism $A \Rightarrow (B\wedge C)\ \…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Beniamino Accattoli , Alejandro Díaz-Caro

Fix a monoidal category C. The 2-category of monads in the 2-category of C-actegories, colax C-equivarant functors, and C-equivariant natural transformations of colax functors, may be recast in terms of pairs consisting of a usual monad and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Zoran Škoda

We compute generators and relations for the section ring of a rational divisor on an elliptic curve. Our technique generalizes the work of O'Dorney (in genus zero) and Voight--Zureick-Brown (for specific divisors arising from the study of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Michael Cerchia , Jesse Franklin , Evan O'Dorney

The ZX-calculus is a graphical language for reasoning about quantum computing and quantum information theory. As a complete graphical language, it incorporates a set of axioms rich enough to derive any equation of the underlying formalism.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Boldizsár Poór , Razin A. Shaikh , Quanlong Wang

The aim of this paper is to study categorified algebraic structures and their pseudo- and lax homomorphisms using the framework of Lawvere $2$-theories, and more generally, (enhanced) $2$-dimensional sketches. The key notion we focus on is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Tomáš Perutka

We define a unified categorical framework for studying six subproblems arising from the classical Four Subspace Problem. For each subproblem, we construct a functor from its associated category to the category of representations of the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Ivon Dorado , Gonzalo Medina

The ZX-Calculus is a graphical language for diagrammatic reasoning in quantum mechanics and quantum information theory. It comes equipped with an equational presentation. We focus here on a very important property of the language:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Emmanuel Jeandel , Simon Perdrix , Renaud Vilmart

We prove the following result: Let K be a lattice, let D be a distributive lattice with zero, and let $\phi$: Con K $\to$ D be a {∨, 0}-homomorphism, where Conc K denotes the {∨, 0}-semilattice of all finitely generated…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Friedrich Wehrung

Geometric Invariant Theory gives a method for constructing quotients for group actions on algebraic varieties which in many cases appear as moduli spaces parametrizing isomorphism classes of geometric objects (vector bundles, polarized…

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We investigate the structure of two-dimensional partial cubes, i.e., of isometric subgraphs of hypercubes whose vertex set defines a set family of VC-dimension at most 2. Equivalently, those are the partial cubes which are not contractible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Victor Chepoi , Kolja Knauer , Manon Philibert

The discard ZX-calculus is known to be complete and universal for mixed-state quantum mechanics, allowing for both quantum and classical processes. However, if the quantum aspects of ZX-calculus have been explored in depth, little work has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Titouan Carette , Daniela Cojocaru , Renaud Vilmart

The prop formalism allows representation of processes withstring diagrams and has been successfully applied in various areas such as quantum computing, electric circuits and control flow graphs. However, these graphical approaches suffer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Titouan Carette , Simon Perdrix

We continue the program of structural differential geometry that begins with the notion of a tangent category, an axiomatization of structural aspects of the tangent functor on the category of smooth manifolds. In classical geometry, having…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-01 R. F. Blute , G. S. H. Cruttwell , R. B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright

Let $\mathcal{X}$ be a resolving and contravariantly finite subcategory of $\rm{mod}\mbox{-}\Lambda$, the category of finitely generated right $\Lambda$-modules. We associate to $\mathcal{X}$ the subcategory…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Rasool Hafezi , Intan Muchtadi-Alamsyah

We study categorical models for the unitless fragment of multiplicative linear logic. We find that the appropriate notion of model is a special kind of promonoidal category. Since the theory of promonoidal categories has not been developed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Robin Houston

Qualitative calculi play a central role in representing and reasoning about qualitative spatial and temporal knowledge. This paper studies distributive subalgebras of qualitative calculi, which are subalgebras in which (weak) composition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Zhiguo Long , Sanjiang Li