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Graphs are a useful abstraction of image content. Not only can graphs represent details about individual objects in a scene but they can capture the interactions between pairs of objects. We present a method for training a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Alejandro Newell , Jia Deng

Quantum gauge theory in the connection representation uses functions of holonomies as configuration observables. Physical observables (gauge and diffeomorphism invariant) are represented in the Hilbert space of physical states; physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Jose A. Zapata

Constructing complex computation from simpler building blocks is a defining problem of computer science. In algebraic automata theory, we represent computing devices as semigroups. Accordingly, we use mathematical tools like products and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Attila Egri-Nagy , Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a common claim in the recent literature on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-20 Tiago P. Peixoto , Leto Peel , Thilo Gross , Manlio De Domenico

A formal consideration in this paper is given for the essential notations to characterize the object that is distinguished in a problem domain. The distinct object is represented by another idealized object, which is a schematic element.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viacheslav Wolfengagen

We construct a fully faithful functor from the category of graphs to the category of fields. Using this functor, we resolve a longstanding open problem in computable model theory, by showing that for every nontrivial countable structure S,…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Russell Miller , Bjorn Poonen , Hans Schoutens , Alexandra Shlapentokh

We are interested in regular expressions and transducers that represent word relations in an alphabet-invariant way---for example, the set of all word pairs u,v where v is a prefix of u independently of what the alphabet is. Current…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Stavros Konstantinidis , Nelma Moreira , Rogerio Reis , Joshua Young

It is well-known that biological phenomena are emergent. Emergent phenomena are quite interesting and amazing. However, they are difficult to be understood. Due to this difficulty, we propose a theory to describe emergence based on a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Giuliano Gadioli La Guardia , Pedro Jeferson Miranda

In "Object generators, relaxed sets, and a foundation for mathematics", we introduced ``object generators'', a logical environment much more general than set theory. Inside this we found a `relaxed' version of set theory. That paper is…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Frank Quinn

Consider a coring with exact rational functor, and a finitely generated and projective right comodule. We construct a functor (\emph{coinduction functor}) which is right adjoint to the hom-functor represented by this comodule. Using the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2009-02-13 L. El Kaoutit , J. Gómez-Torrecillas

Diagrammatic sets are presheaves on a rich category of shapes, whose definition is motivated by combinatorial topology and higher-dimensional diagram rewriting. These shapes include representatives of oriented simplices, cubes, and positive…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Clémence Chanavat , Amar Hadzihasanovic

In work of Fokkinga and Meertens a calculational approach to category theory is developed. The scheme has many merits, but sacrifices useful type information in the move to an equational style of reasoning. By contrast, traditional proofs…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Daniel Marsden

Real or complex tensor model observables, the backbone of the tensor theory space, are classical (unitary, orthogonal, symplectic) Lie group invariants. These observables represent as colored graphs, and that representation gives an handle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Joseph Ben Geloun

There exists a dispute in philosophy, going back at least to Leibniz, whether is it possible to view the world as a network of relations and relations between relations with the role of objects, between which these relations hold, entirely…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Michael Heller

In conformal field theory the understanding of correlation functions can be divided into two distinct conceptual levels: The analytic properties of the correlators endow the representation categories of the underlying chiral symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 Jurgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert

One can think of power series or polynomials in one variable, such as $P(x)=2x^3+x+5$, as functors from the category $\mathsf{Set}$ of sets to itself; these are known as polynomial functors. Denote by $\mathsf{Poly}_{\mathsf{Set}}$ the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-05 David I. Spivak , David Jaz Myers

The representation theory for categorical groups is constructed. Each categorical group determines a monoidal bicategory of representations. Typically, these categories contain representations which are indecomposable but not irreducible. A…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John W. Barrett , Marco Mackaay

Simple conceptual graphs are considered as the kernel of most knowledge representation formalisms built upon Sowa's model. Reasoning in this model can be expressed by a graph homomorphism called projection, whose semantics is usually given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-10 J. F. Baget , M. L. Mugnier

A pretorsion theory for the category of all categories is presented. The associated prekernels and precokernels are calculated for every functor.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-03 João J. Xarez

We introduce a graphical language for closed symmetric monoidal categories based on an extension of string diagrams with special bracket wires representing internal homs. These bracket wires make the structure of the internal hom functor…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Callum Reader , Alessandro Di Giorgio