Models for parallel and concurrent processes lead quite naturally to the study of monoidal categories (Inform. Comput. 88 (2) (1990) 105). In particular a category Tree of trees, equipped with a non-symmetric tensor product, interpreted as a concatenation, seems to be very useful to represent (local) behavior of non-deterministic agents able to communicate (Enriched Categories for Local and Interaction Calculi, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 283, Springer, Berlin, 1987, pp. 57-70). The category Tree is also provided with a coproduct (corresponding to choice between behaviors) and the tensor product is only partially distributive w.r.t. it, in order to preserve non-determinism. Such a category can be properly defined as the category of the (finite) symmetric categories on a free monoid, when this free monoid is considered as a 2-category. The monoidal structure is inherited from the concatenation in the monoid. In this paper we prove that for every alphabet A, Tree(A), the category of finite A-labeled trees is equivalent to the free category which is generated by A and enjoys the afore-mentioned properties. The related category Beh(A), corresponding to global behaviors is also proven to be equivalent to the free category which is generated by A and enjoys a smaller set of properties. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Categories with sums and right distributive tensor product / Labella, Anna. - In: JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED ALGEBRA. - ISSN 0022-4049. - STAMPA. - 178:3(2003), pp. 273-296. [10.1016/s0022-4049(02)00169-x]
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Titolo: | Categories with sums and right distributive tensor product | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2003 | |
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Citazione: | Categories with sums and right distributive tensor product / Labella, Anna. - In: JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED ALGEBRA. - ISSN 0022-4049. - STAMPA. - 178:3(2003), pp. 273-296. [10.1016/s0022-4049(02)00169-x] | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11573/40448 | |
Appartiene alla tipologia: | 01a Articolo in rivista |