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The disjunctive sum of impartial games is analyzed by Sprague-Grundy theory. The theory has been extended to loopy games and entailing games by early results. In this study, we consider further extension of this theory and show partial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Koki Suetsugu

We give a general notion of combinatory completeness with respect to a faithful cartesian club and use it systematically to obtain characterisations of a number of different kinds of applicative system. Each faithful cartesian club…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ivan Kuzmin , Chad Nester , Ülo Reimaa , Sam Speight

Categories provide a coarse grained description of the world. A fundamental question is whether categories simply mirror an underlying structure of nature, or instead come from the complex interactions of human beings among themselves and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-06-19 Andrea Puglisi , Andrea Baronchelli , Vittorio Loreto

We develop a theory of large scale geometry of metrisable topological groups that, in a significant number of cases, allows one to define and identify a unique quasi-isometry type intrinsic to the topological group. Moreover, this…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Christian Rosendal

We prove a categorical duality between a class of abstract algebras of partial functions and a class of (small) topological categories. The algebras are the isomorphs of collections of partial functions closed under the operations of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Brett McLean

We characterize winning strategies in various infinite games involving filters on the natural numbers in terms of combinatorics or structural properties of the given filter. These generalize several ultrafilter games of Galvin.

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Claude Laflamme

We study the problem of characterizing the set of games that are consistent with observed equilibrium play. Our contribution is to develop and analyze a new methodology based on convex optimization to address this problem for many classes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Juba Ziani , Venkat Chandrasekaran , Katrina Ligett

In this note we characterize, within the framework of the theory of finite set, those categories of graphs that are {\em algebraic universal} in the sense that every concrete category embeds in them. The proof of the characterization is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-04 J. Nesetril , P. Ossona de Mendez

We consider $N$-player games, in continuous time, finite state space and finite time horizon, on a geometrical structure possessing a macroscopic limit in a suitable sense. This geometrical structure breaks the permutation invariance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Francesca Albertini , Paolo Dai Pra

Strong placement games (SP-games) are a class of combinatorial games whose structure allows one to describe the game via simplicial complexes. A natural question is whether well-known invariants of combinatorial games, such as "game value",…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Sara Faridi , Svenja Huntemann , Richard J. Nowakowski

Game semantics is a rich and successful class of denotational models for programming languages. Most game models feature a rather intuitive setup, yet surprisingly difficult proofs of such basic results as associativity of composition of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Clovis Eberhart , Tom Hirschowitz

Bimorphic lenses are a simplification of polymorphic lenses that (like polymorphic lenses) have a type defined by 4 parameters, but which are defined in a monomorphic type system (i.e. an ordinary category with finite products). We show…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Jules Hedges

Properties of categories enriched over the category of metric spaces are investigated and applied to a study of constructions known from that category and the category of Banach spaces. For every class of morphisms satisfying a mild…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Jiří Adámek , Jiří Rosický

In this paper, we will be proving mathematically that scoring play combinatorial game theory covers all combinatorial games. That is, there is a sub-set of scoring play games that are identical to the set of normal play games, and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-19 Fraser Stewart

This paper presents a monoidal category whose morphisms are games (in the sense of game theory, not game semantics) and an associated diagrammatic language. The two basic operations of a monoidal category, namely categorical composition and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Jules Hedges

Let $\mathbf{C}$ be a Cauchy-complete category. The subtoposes of $[\mathbf{C}^{\mathrm{op}},\mathbf{Set}]$ are sometimes all of the form $[\mathbf{D}^{\mathrm{op}},\mathbf{Set}]$ where $\mathbf{D}$ is a full subcategory of $\mathbf{C}$.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Jérémie Marquès

We define natural A_infinity-transformations and construct A_infinity-category of A_infinity-functors. The notion of non-strict units in an A_infinity-category is introduced. The 2-category of (unital) A_infinity-categories, (unital)…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-17 Volodymyr Lyubashenko

We extend the open games framework for compositional game theory to encompass also mixed strategies, making essential use of the discrete probability distribution monad. We show that the resulting games form a symmetric monoidal category,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Neil Ghani , Clemens Kupke , Alasdair Lambert , Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg

In cooperative game theory, games in partition function form are real-valued function on the set of so-called embedded coalitions, that is, pairs $(S,\pi)$ where $S$ is a subset (coalition) of the set $N$ of players, and $\pi$ is a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-02-22 Michel Grabisch

We introduce the notion of a definable category--a category equivalent to a full subcategory of a locally finitely presentable category that is closed under products, directed colimits and pure subobjects. Definable subcategories are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Amit Kuber , Jiří Rosický