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A monoidal closed category of event structures

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Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 1991)

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This paper introduces the following new constructions on stable event structures: the tensor product, the linear function space, and the exponential. It results in a monoidal closed category of stable event structures which can be used to interpret intuitionistic linear logic.

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Stephen Brookes Michael Main Austin Melton Michael Mislove David Schmidt

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Zhang, GQ. (1992). A monoidal closed category of event structures. In: Brookes, S., Main, M., Melton, A., Mislove, M., Schmidt, D. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics. MFPS 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 598. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55511-0_21

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