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Many types of categorical structure obey the following principle: the natural notion of equivalence is generated, as an equivalence relation, by identifying $A$ with $B$ when there exists a strictly structure-preserving map $A \to B$ that…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Tom Leinster

We give a syntactic characterization of abstract elementary classes (AECs) closed under intersections using a new logic with a quantifier for isomorphism types that we call structural logic: we prove that AECs with intersections correspond…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Will Boney , Sebastien Vasey

We prove a single category-theoretic result encapsulating the notions of ultrafilters, ultrapower, ultraproduct, tensor product of ultrafilters, the Rudin--Kiesler partial ordering on ultrafilters, and Blass's category of ultrafilters UF.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Richard Garner

We consider (finitary, propositional) logics through the original use of Category Theory: the study of the "sociology of mathematical objects", aligning us with a recent, and growing, trend of study logics through its relations with other…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Caio de Andrade Mendes , Hugo Luiz Mariano

First-order logic with dependent sorts, such as Makkai's first-order logic with dependent sorts (FOLDS), or Aczel's and Belo's dependently typed (intuitionistic) first-order logic (DFOL), may be regarded as logic enriched dependent type…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Erik Palmgren

In this exposition, we get examples of what is called a "linear hyperdoctrine", based on categories of comodules indexed by coalgebras. This structures can model first order linear logic.

Logic · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Mariana Haim , Octavio Malherbe

Classical higher-order logic, when utilized as a meta-logic in which various other (classical and non-classical) logics can be shallowly embedded, is well suited for realising a universal logic reasoning approach. Universal logic reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Christoph Benzmüller

We show that Zilber's conjecture that complex exponentiation is isomorphic to his pseudo-exponentiation follows from the a priori simpler conjecture that they are elementarily equivalent. An analysis of the first-order types in…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Jonathan Kirby

We observe that the category of topological space, uniform spaces, and simplicial sets are all, in a natural way, full subcategories of the same larger category, namely the simplicial category of filters; this is, moreover, implicit in the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Misha Gavrilovich

Various concerns suggest looking for internal co-categories in categories with strong logical structure. It turns out that in any coherent category, all co-categories are co-equivalence relations.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine

A sound and complete embedding of conditional logics into classical higher-order logic is presented. This embedding enables the application of off-the-shelf higher-order automated theorem provers and model finders for reasoning within and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Christoph Benzmueller , Dov Gabbay , Valerio Genovese , Daniele Rispoli

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

A co-valuation is, essentially, a minimal finite cover. We introduce a logic based on co-valuations, which play the role of valuations of free variables in classical first-order logic, and show that the fundamental tools of model theory --…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Maciej Malicki

Simple type theory is suited as framework for combining classical and non-classical logics. This claim is based on the observation that various prominent logics, including (quantified) multimodal logics and intuitionistic logics, can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Christoph Benzmueller

This work hopes to be an introduction to Deligne categories for someone familiar with classical representation theory and some category theory. In the first chapter, we motivate and define (symmetric) tensor categories, construct the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Serina Hu

For any finite totally ordered set, the multisets of intervals form an abelian category. Various classes of subcategories admit natural combinatorial descriptions, and counting them yields familiar integer sequences. Surprisingly, in some…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Henning Krause , Balduin Stoye

Pre-trained word embeddings are widely used for transfer learning in natural language processing. The embeddings are continuous and distributed representations of the words that preserve their similarities in compact Euclidean spaces.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Halid Ziya Yerebakan , Parmeet Bhatia , Yoshihisa Shinagawa

For a countable, complete, first-order theory $T$, we study $At$, the class of atomic models of $T$. We develop an analogue of $U$-rank and prove two results. On one hand, if some tp(d/a) is not ranked, then there are $2^{\aleph_1}$…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-02-04 John T. Baldwin , Michael C. Laskowski , Saharon Shelah

We show that a number of results on abstract elementary classes (AECs) hold in accessible categories with concrete directed colimits. In particular, we prove a generalization of a recent result of Boney on tameness under a large cardinal…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Michael Lieberman , Jirí Rosický

Recently, in Axioms 10(2): 119 (2021), a nonclassical first-order theory T of sets and functions has been introduced as the collection of axioms we have to accept if we want a foundational theory for (all of) mathematics that is not weaker…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Marcoen J. T. F. Cabbolet , Adrian R. D. Mathias