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Coherent Taylor expansion as a bimonad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2025

Thomas Ehrhard  and
Aymeric Walch Open the ORCID record for Aymeric Walch [Opens in a new window]
Thomas Ehrhard
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Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Inria, IRIF, F-75013, Paris, France
Aymeric Walch*
Affiliation:
Université Paris Cité, CNRS, IRIF, F-75013, Paris, France
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Corresponding author: Aymeric Walch; Email: walch@irif.fr
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Abstract

We extend the recently introduced setting of coherent differentiation by taking into account not only differentiation but also Taylor expansion in categories which are not necessarily (left) additive. The main idea consists in extending summability into an infinitary functor which intuitively maps any object to the object of its countable summable families. This functor is endowed with a canonical structure of a bimonad. In a linear logical categorical setting, Taylor expansion is then axiomatized as a distributive law between this summability functor and the resource comonad (aka. exponential). This distributive law allows to extend the summability functor into a bimonad on the coKleisli category of the resource comonad: this extended functor computes the Taylor expansion of the (nonlinear) morphisms of the coKleisli category. We also show how this categorical axiomatization of Taylor expansion can be generalized to arbitrary cartesian categories, leading to a general theory of Taylor expansion formally similar to that of cartesian differential categories, although it does not require the underlying cartesian category to be left additive. We provide several examples of concrete categories that arise in denotational semantics and feature such analytic structures.

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categorical semanticsdenotational semanticslinear logicdifferential lambda calculustaylor expansioncoherent differentiation

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Special issue: Differential Structures
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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 35 , 2026 , e9
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