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A diverse collection of fusion categories may be realized by the representation theory of quantum groups. There is substantial literature where one will find detailed constructions of quantum groups, and proofs of the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Andrew Schopieray

Containers represent a wide class of type constructions relevant for functional programming and (co)inductive reasoning. Indexed containers generalize this notion to better fit the scope of dependently typed programming. When interpreting…

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Query containment and query answering are two important computational tasks in databases. While query answering amounts to compute the result of a query over a database, query containment is the problem of checking whether for every…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Diego Calvanese , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Maurizio Lenzerini

We study countable embedding-universal and homomorphism-universal structures and unify results related to both of these notions. We show that many universal and ultrahomogeneous structures allow a concise description (called here a finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-06 Jan Hubicka

A skeleton of the category with finite coproducts D freely generated by a single object has a subcategory isomorphic to a skeleton of the category with finite products C freely generated by a countable set of objects. As a consequence, we…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Kosta Dosen , Zoran Petric

This paper develops a methodology for representing machine learning models as models of formal theories, grounded in the perspective that machine learning models are a form of database and that databases are models of theories in coherent…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Matthew Pugh , Jo Grundy , Corina Cirstea , Nick Harris

Similar to a tree grammar, a Horn theory can be used to describe an infinite set of terms. In this paper, we present a class of Horn theories such that the set of definable predicates is closed wrt. conjunction and such that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Jochen Burghardt

We motivate and give semantics to theory presentation combinators as the foundational building blocks for a scalable library of theories. The key observation is that the category of contexts and fibered categories are the ideal theoretical…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Jacques Carette , Russell O'Connor

Morphisms in a monoidal category are usually interpreted as processes, and graphically depicted as square boxes. In practice, we are faced with the problem of interpreting what non-square boxes ought to represent in terms of the monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Mario Román

Sets and relations are very useful concepts for defining denotational semantics. In the Coq proof assistant, curried functions to Prop are used to represent sets and relations, e.g. A -> Prop, A -> B -> Prop, A -> B -> C -> Prop, etc.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qinxiang Cao , Xiwei Wu , Yalun Liang

Relational presheaves generalize traditional presheaves by going to the category of sets and relations (as opposed to sets and functions) and by allowing functors which are lax. This added generality is useful because it intuitively allows…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Yorgo Chamoun , Samuel Mimram

Graduated locally finitely presentable categories are introduced, examples include categories of sets, vector spaces, posets, presheaves and Boolean algebras. A finitary functor between graduated locally finitely presentable categories is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Jirí Adámek , Lurdes Sousa

Category theory unifies mathematical concepts, aiding comparisons across structures by incorporating objects and morphisms, which capture their interactions. It has influenced areas of computer science such as automata theory, functional…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Nima Rasekh , Niels van der Weide , Benedikt Ahrens , Paige Randall North

In this thesis, we introduce Cartesian double categories, motivated by the work of Carboni, Kelly, Walters, and Wood on Cartesian bicategories. Moving from bicategories to the slightly more generalized notion of double categories allows us…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Evangelia Aleiferi

We study monoidal profunctors as a tool to reason and structure pure functional programs both from a categorical perspective and as a Haskell implementation. From the categorical point of view we approach them as monoids in a certain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Alexandre Garcia de Oliveira , Mauro Jaskelioff , Ana Cristina Vieira de Melo

Fibrations over a category $B$, introduced to category theory by Grothendieck, encode pseudo-functors $B^{op} \rightsquigarrow {\bf Cat}$, while the special case of discrete fibrations encode presheaves $B^{op} \to {\bf Set}$. A two-sided…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Fosco Loregian , Emily Riehl

Extending the lambda-calculus with a construct for sharing, such as let expressions, enables a special representation of terms: iterated applications are decomposed by introducing sharing points in between any two of them, reducing to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Beniamino Accattoli , Andrea Condoluci , Giulio Guerrieri , Claudio Sacerdoti Coen

Fong developed `decorated cospans' to model various kinds of open systems: that is, systems with inputs and outputs. In this framework, open systems are seen as the morphisms of a category and can be composed as such, allowing larger open…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Kenny Courser

We introduce new techniques for working with presentations for a large class of (strict) tensor categories. We then apply the general theory to obtain presentations for partition, Brauer and Temperley-Lieb categories, as well as several…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-18 James East

Query Containment Problem (QCP) is a fundamental decision problem in query processing and optimization. While QCP has for a long time been completely understood for the case of set semantics, decidability of QCP for conjunctive queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jerzy Marcinkowski , Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja