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We define the infinite dimensional simplex to be the closure of the convex hull of the standard basis vectors in R^infinity, and prove that this space has the 'fixed point property': any continuous function from the space into itself has a…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-28 Douglas Rizzolo , Francis Edward Su

Approximation Fixpoint Theory (AFT) is an algebraic framework designed to study the semantics of non-monotonic logics. Despite its success, AFT is not readily applicable to higher-order definitions. To solve such an issue, we devise a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Samuele Pollaci , Babis Kostopoulos , Marc Denecker , Bart Bogaerts

We consider a class of formula equations in first-order logic, Horn formula equations, which are defined by a syntactic restriction on the occurrences of predicate variables. Horn formula equations play an important role in many…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Stefan Hetzl , Johannes Kloibhofer

We present a new theoretical framework that unifies category-theoretic fixed-point constructions, transfinite recursion, and game-based semantics to model how interpretations of language can stabilize through unlimited self-reference. By…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Faruk Alpay , Hamdi Al Alakkad

In this paper, the notion of $\mathbb{C}$-simulation function is introduced and the existence and uniqueness of common fixed points of two self-mappings satisfying contractive conditions in the setting of complex valued metric spaces via…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Anuradha Gupta , Manu Rohilla

We introduce a fixed point iteration process built on optimization of a linear function over a compact domain. We prove the process always converges to a fixed point and explore the set of fixed points in various convex sets. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Pedro Felzenszwalb , Caroline Klivans , Alice Paul

We introduce a categorical framework for diffusion on network-structured data valued in weighted lattices, extending the Laplacian paradigm beyond the category of Hilbert spaces. Central to our approach is the Lawvere Laplacian, an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Robert Ghrist , Miguel Lopez , Paige Randall North , Hans Riess

The elementary affine lambda-calculus was introduced as a polyvalent setting for implicit computational complexity, allowing for characterizations of polynomial time and hyperexponential time predicates. But these results rely on type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Lê Thành Dũng Nguyen

A foundational theory of compositional categorical rewriting theory is presented, based on a collection of fibration-like properties that collectively induce and intrinsically structure the large collection of lemmata used in the proofs of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Nicolas Behr , Russ Harmer , Jean Krivine

In this paper, we are concerned with the study of the existence of fixed points for single and multi-valued three-points contractions. Namely, we first introduce a new class of single-valued mappings defined on a metric space equipped with…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Mohamed Jleli , Evgeniy Petrov , Bessem Samet

Neural networks excel at pattern recognition but struggle with reliable logical reasoning, often violating basic logical principles during inference. We address this limitation by developing a categorical framework that systematically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Logan Nye

A $1$-Lipschitz map $f$ from a convex compact set to itself has fixed points. This consequence of Brouwer's or Schauder's fixed point theorem has more elementary proofs by approximating $f$ by $\lambda$-contractions, $f_\lambda$. We study…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Maxime Zavidovique

In this paper we present some fixed-figure theorems as a geometric approach to the fixed-point theory when the number of fixed points of a self-mapping is more than one. To do this, we modify the Jleli-Samet type contraction and define new…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Hülya Atyimur , Nihal Taş

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for fixed points of contraction maps in the framework of quantum metric spaces, where distinguishability is defined by the $L^2$ norm: $d_Q(\psi_1,\psi_2) = \|\psi_1 - \psi_2\|$. The result…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Nicola Fabiano

This paper studies fundamental questions concerning category-theoretic models of induction and recursion. We are concerned with the relationship between well-founded and recursive coalgebras for an endofunctor. For monomorphism preserving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jiří Adámek , Stefan Milius , Lawrence S. Moss

Beginning with the projectively invariant method for linear programming, interior point methods have led to powerful algorithms for many difficult computing problems, in combinatorial optimization, logic, number theory and non-convex…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Narendra Karmarkar

We present a constructive proof of Brouwer's fixed point theorem for uniformly continuous and sequentially locally non-constant functions based on the existence of approximate fixed points. And we will show that Brouwer's fixed point…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-08-24 Yasuhito Tanaka

This paper contributes to a theory of the behaviour of "finite-state" systems that is generic in the system type. We propose that such systems are modeled as coalgebras with a finitely generated carrier for an endofunctor on a locally…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Stefan Milius , Dirk Pattinson , Thorsten Wißmann

Recursively defined linked data structures embedded in a pointer-based heap and their properties are naturally expressed in pure first-order logic with least fixpoint definitions (FO+lfp) with background theories. Such logics, unlike pure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Adithya Murali , Lucas Peña , Eion Blanchard , Christof Löding , P. Madhusudan

In this note, we discuss some fixed point theorems for contractive self mappings defined on a $G$-metric spaces. More precisely, we give fised point theorems for mappings with a contractive iterate at a point.

General Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Yaé Olatoundji Gaba