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Tape diagrams provide a convenient graphical notation for arrows of rig categories, i.e., categories equipped with two monoidal products, $\oplus$ and $\otimes$. In this work, we introduce Kleene-Cartesian rig categories, namely rig…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Filippo Bonchi , Alessandro Di Giorgio , Elena Di Lavore

Tape diagrams provide a graphical representation for arrows of rig categories, namely categories equipped with two monoidal structures, $\oplus$ and $\otimes$, where $\otimes$ distributes over $\oplus$. However, their applicability is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Filippo Bonchi , Cipriano Junior Cioffo , Alessandro Di Giorgio , Elena Di Lavore

Tape diagrams provide a graphical notation for categories equipped with two monoidal products, $\otimes$ and $\oplus$, where $\oplus$ is a biproduct. Recently, they have been generalised to handle Kleisli categories of arbitrary monoidal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Filippo Bonchi , Cipriano Junior Cioffo

Rig categories with finite biproducts are categories with two monoidal products, where one is a biproduct and the other distributes over it. In this work we present tape diagrams, a sound and complete diagrammatic language for these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Filippo Bonchi , Alessandro Di Giorgio , Alessio Santamaria

Bimonoidal categories (also known as rig categories) are categories with two monoidal structures, one of which distributes over the other. We formally define sheet diagrams, a graphical calculus for bimonoidal categories that was informally…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Cole Comfort , Antonin Delpeuch , Jules Hedges

We introduce collages of string diagrams as a diagrammatic syntax for glueing multiple monoidal categories. Collages of string diagrams are interpreted as pointed bimodular profunctors. As the main examples of this technique, we introduce…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Dylan Braithwaite , Mario Román

This is a draft of the textbook/monograph that presents computability theory using string diagrams. The introductory chapters have been taught as graduate and undergraduate courses and evolved through 8 years of lecture notes. The later…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Dusko Pavlovic

We give an alternate conception of string diagrams as labeled 1-dimensional oriented cobordisms, the operad of which we denote by Cob/O, where O is the set of string labels. The axioms of traced (symmetric monoidal) categories are fully…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-06 David I. Spivak , Patrick Schultz , Dylan Rupel

This article is intended as a reference guide to various notions of monoidal categories and their associated string diagrams. It is hoped that this will be useful not just to mathematicians, but also to physicists, computer scientists, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Peter Selinger

We study Kleene iteration in the categorical context. A celebrated completeness result by Kozen introduced Kleene algebra (with tests) as a ubiquitous tool for lightweight reasoning about program equivalence, and yet, numerous variants of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sergey Goncharov , Tarmo Uustalu

An itegory is a restriction category with a Kleene wand. Cockett, D\'iaz-Bo\"ils, Gallagher, and Hrube\v{s} briefly introduced Kleene wands to capture iteration in restriction categories arising from complexity theory. The purpose of this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Robin Cockett , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

We derive multiple program logics, including correctness, incorrectness, and relational Hoare logic, from the axioms of imperative categories: uniformly traced distributive copy-discard categories. We introduce an internal language for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Filippo Bonchi , Elena Di Lavore , Mario Román , Sam Staton

A popular graphical calculus for monoidal categories makes computations tactile and intuitive. Complicated diagram chases can be expressed in a few pictures and discovered by playing with a shoelace. Joyal and Street's proof of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-05 David Jaz Myers

We present a new model of computation, described in terms of monoidal categories. It conforms the Church-Turing Thesis, and captures the same computable functions as the standard models. It provides a succinct categorical interface to most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Dusko Pavlovic

Path calculus, or graphical linear algebra, is a string diagram calculus for the category of matrices over a base ring. It is the usual string diagram calculus for a symmetric monoidal category, where the monoidal product is the direct sum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 Simon Burton

We introduce the calculus of neo-Peircean relations, a string diagrammatic extension of the calculus of binary relations that has the same expressivity as first order logic and comes with a complete axiomatisation. The axioms are obtained…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Filippo Bonchi , Alessandro Di Giorgio , Nathan Haydon , Pawel Sobocinski

Abstract clones serve as an algebraic presentation of the syntax of a simple type theory. From the perspective of universal algebra, they define algebraic theories like those of groups, monoids and rings. This link allows one to study the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nayan Rajesh

In category theory, the use of string diagrams is well known to aid in the intuitive understanding of certain concepts, particularly when dealing with adjunctions and monoidal categories. We show that string diagrams are also useful in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Kenji Nakahira

Regular logic is the fragment of first order logic generated by $=$, $\top$, $\wedge$, and $\exists$. A key feature of this logic is that it is the minimal fragment required to express composition of binary relations; another is that it is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Brendan Fong , David I Spivak

We introduce M\"obius strip diagram algebras (and their monoid and categorical versions) as subalgebras of a partition-style diagram calculus in which strands may carry handles and M\"obius strip features. We identify the resulting diagram…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-13 D. W. Collison , D. Tubbenhauer
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