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The classical causal relations between a set of variables, some observed and some latent, can induce both equality constraints (typically conditional independences) as well as inequality constraints (Instrumental and Bell inequalities being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Shashaank Khanna , Marina Maciel Ansanelli , Matthew F. Pusey , Elie Wolfe

Differential categories axiomatize the basics of differentiation and provide categorical models of differential linear logic. A differential category is said to have antiderivatives if a natural transformation $\mathsf{K}$, which all…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

Computational effects may often be interpreted in the Kleisli category of a monad or in the coKleisli category of a comonad. The duality between monads and comonads corresponds, in general, to a symmetry between construction and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Dominique Duval , Jean-Claude Reynaud

Restriction categories were introduced as a way of generalising the notion of partial map categories. In this paper, we define cocomplete restriction category, and give the free cocompletion of a small restriction category as a suitably…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Richard Garner , Daniel Lin

It is proved that equalities between arrows assumed for cartesian categories are maximal in the sense that extending them with any new equality in the language of free cartesian categories collapses a cartesian category into a preorder. An…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kosta Dosen , Zoran Petric

A significant part of quantum theory can be obtained from a single innovation relative to classical theories, namely, that there is a fundamental restriction on the sorts of statistical distributions over physical states that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-14 Robert W. Spekkens

We exhibit an adjunction between a category of abstract algebras of partial functions that we call difference-restriction algebras and a category of Hausdorff \'etale spaces. Difference-restriction algebras are those algebras isomorphic to…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Célia Borlido , Ganna Kudryavtseva , Brett McLean

In flowchart languages, predicates play an interesting double role. In the textual representation, they are often presented as conditions, i.e., expressions which are easily combined with other conditions (often via Boolean combinators) to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Robin Kaarsgaard

Restriction categories were introduced to provide an axiomatic setting for the study of partially defined mappings; they are categories equipped with an operation called restriction which assigns to every morphism an endomorphism of its…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Robin Cockett , Richard Garner

We ascertain conditions and structures on categories and semigroups which admit the construction of pseudo-products and trace products respectively, making their connection as precise as possible. This topic is modelled on the ESN Theorem…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-10-14 D. G. FitzGerald , M. K. Kinyon

Unlike quantum correlations, the shareability of classical correlations (CCs) between two-parties of a multipartite state is assumed to be free since there exist states for which CCs for each of the reduced states can simultaneously reach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Saptarshi Roy , Shiladitya Mal , Aditi Sen De

A symmetric monoidal category naturally arises as the mathematical structure that organizes physical systems, processes, and composition thereof, both sequentially and in parallel. This structure admits a purely graphical calculus. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Bob Coecke , Raymond Lal

Classical finite association schemes lead to a finite-dimensional algebras which are generated by finitely many stochastic matrices. Moreover, there exist associated finite hypergroups. The notion of classical discrete association schemes…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Michael Voit

The study of categories abstracting the structural properties of relations has been extensively developed over the years, resulting in a rich and diverse body of work. A previous paper offered a survey providing a modern and comprehensive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Cipriano Junior Cioffo , Fabio Gadducci , Davide Trotta

Restriction categories provide a categorical framework for partiality. In this paper, we introduce three new categorical theories for partiality: local categories, partial categories, and inclusion categories. The objects of a local…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Marcello Lanfranchi , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

We study a categorical condition on relations, which is a categorical formulation of J\'onsson's characterisation of congruence distributive varieties. Categories satisfying these conditions need not be varieties; for instance, the dual of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Michael Hoefnagel , Diana Rodelo

We demonstrate the effectiveness of the categorical distribution as a neural network output for next event prediction. This is done for both discrete-time and continuous-time event sequences. To model continuous-time processes, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Kevin Doran , Tom Baden

During the last decades, a lot of effort was put into identifying decidable fragments of first-order logic. Such efforts gave birth, among the others, to the two-variable fragment and the guarded fragment, depending on the type of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Maja Orłowska , Anna Pacanowska , Tony Tan

In recent work, symmetric dagger-monoidal (SDM) categories have emerged as a convenient categorical formalization of quantum mechanics. The objects represent physical systems, the morphisms physical operations, whereas the tensors describe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Bob Coecke , Eric Oliver Paquette , Dusko Pavlovic

We propose a categorial grammar based on classical multiplicative linear logic. This can be seen as an extension of abstract categorial grammars (ACG) and is at least as expressive. However, constituents of {\it linear logic grammars (LLG)}…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Sergey Slavnov