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A categorical analogue of the monoid semiring construction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2012

PETER HINES
PETER HINES*
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Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, United Kingdom Email: peter.hines@cs.york.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper introduces and studies a categorical analogue of the familiar monoid semiring construction. By introducing an axiomatisation of summation that unifies notions of summation from algebraic program semantics with various notions of summation from the theory of analysis, we demonstrate that the monoid semiring construction generalises to cases where both the monoid and the semiring are categories. This construction has many interesting and natural categorical properties, and natural computational interpretations.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 55 - 94
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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