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We introduce a notion of compatibility between constraint encoding and compositional structure. Phrased in the language of category theory, it is given by a "composable constraint encoding". We show that every composable constraint encoding…

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Native type systems are those in which type constructors are derived from term constructors, as well as the constructors of predicate logic and intuitionistic type theory. We present a method to construct native type systems for a broad…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Christian Williams , Michael Stay

A combinatorial theory of associative $n$-categories has recently been proposed, with strictly associative and unital composition in all dimensions, and the weak structure arising as a combinatorial notion of homotopy with a natural…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-12 David Reutter , Jamie Vicary

A double category is constructed from a `fattened' version of a given category, motivated in part by a context of parallel transport. We also study monoidal structures on the underlying category and on the fattened category.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Saikat Chatterjee , Amitabha Lahiri , Ambar N. Sengupta

Models of dependent type theories are contextual categories with some additional structure. We prove that if a theory $T$ has enough structure, then the category $T\text{-}\mathbf{Mod}$ of its models carries the structure of a model…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Valery Isaev

This is a collection of introductory, expository notes on applied category theory, inspired by the 2018 Applied Category Theory Workshop, and in these notes we take a leisurely stroll through two themes (functorial semantics and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Tai-Danae Bradley

Applied category theory often studies symmetric monoidal categories (SMCs) whose morphisms represent open systems. These structures naturally accommodate complex wiring patterns, leveraging (co)monoidal structures for splitting and merging…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Marius Furter , Yujun Huang , Gioele Zardini

In the theory of operads we consider functors of generalized symmetric powers defined by sums of coinvariant modules under actions of symmetric groups. One observes classically that the construction of symmetric functors provides an…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-02-25 Benoit Fresse

Our aim is to give a fairly complete account on the construction of compatible model structures on exact categories and symmetric monoidal exact categories, in some cases generalizing previously known results. We describe the close…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Jan Stovicek

Attack trees (ATs) are popular graphical models for reasoning about the security of complex systems, allowing for the quantification of risk through so-called AT metrics. A large variety of different such AT metrics have been proposed, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Benedikt Peterseim , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg

Process science is a highly interdisciplinary field of research. Despite numerous proposals, process science lacks an adequate understanding of the core concepts of the field, including notions such as process, event, and system. A more…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Peter Fettke , Wolfgang Reisig

A partitioned process theory, as defined by Coecke, Fritz, and Spekkens, is a symmetric monoidal category together with an all-object-including symmetric monoidal subcategory. We think of the morphisms of this category as processes, and the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Brendan Fong , Hugo Nava-Kopp

Keeping in mind the several models of M(atrix) theory we attempt to understand the possible structure of the topological M(atrix) theory ``underlying'' these approaches. In particular we raise the issue about the nature of the structure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Alam

Recently, there has been renewed interest in the theory and applications of de Paiva's dialectica categories and their relationship to the category of polynomial functors. Both fall under the theory of generalized polynomial categories,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Joseph Dorta , Samantha Jarvis , Nelson Niu

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long pursued models, theories, and techniques to imbue machines with human-like general intelligence. Yet even the currently predominant data-driven approaches in AI seem to be lacking humans' unique ability…

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We explore an alternative definition of unit in a monoidal category originally due to Saavedra: a Saavedra unit is a cancellative idempotent (in a 1-categorical sense). This notion is more economical than the usual notion in terms of…

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We provide an overview of the hybrid compositional distributional model of meaning, developed in Coecke et al. (arXiv:1003.4394v1 [cs.CL]), which is based on the categorical methods also applied to the analysis of information flow in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Edward Grefenstette

This article represents a preliminary attempt to link Kan extensions, and some of their further developments, to Fourier theory and quantum algebra through *-autonomous monoidal categories and related structures.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brian J. Day

Category Theory provides us with a clear notion of what is an internal structure. This will allow us to focus our attention on a certain type of relationship between context and structure.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Dominique Bourn

In previous work ("From signatures to monads in UniMath"), we described a category-theoretic construction of abstract syntax from a signature, mechanized in the UniMath library based on the Coq proof assistant. In the present work, we…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Benedikt Ahrens , Ralph Matthes , Anders Mörtberg