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A formalism for the specification of essentially-algebraic structures in 2-categories†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2009

A. J. Power  and
Charles Wells
A. J. Power
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Computer Science, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK
Charles Wells
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University, University Circle, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Abstract

A type of higher-order two-dimensional sketch is defined which has models in suitable 2-categories. It has as special cases the ordinary sketches of Ehresmann and certain previously defined generalizations of one-dimensional sketches. These sketches allow the specification of constructions in 2-categories such as weighted limits, as well as higher-order constructions such as exponential objects and subobject classifiers, that cannot be sketched by limits and colimits. These sketches are designed to be the basis of a category-based methodology for the description of functional programming languages, complete with rewrite rules giving the operational semantics, that is independent of the usual specification methods based on formal languages and symbolic logic. A definition of ‘path grammar’, generalizing the usual notion of grammar, is given as a step towards this goal.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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