34 research outputs found
!-Graphs with Trivial Overlap are Context-Free
String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about composite structures
in symmetric monoidal categories. By representing string diagrams as graphs,
equational reasoning can be done automatically by double-pushout rewriting.
!-graphs give us the means of expressing and proving properties about whole
families of these graphs simultaneously. While !-graphs provide elegant proofs
of surprisingly powerful theorems, little is known about the formal properties
of the graph languages they define. This paper takes the first step in
characterising these languages by showing that an important subclass of
!-graphs--those whose repeated structures only overlap trivially--can be
encoded using a (context-free) vertex replacement grammar.Comment: In Proceedings GaM 2015, arXiv:1504.0244
Equational reasoning with context-free families of string diagrams
String diagrams provide an intuitive language for expressing networks of
interacting processes graphically. A discrete representation of string
diagrams, called string graphs, allows for mechanised equational reasoning by
double-pushout rewriting. However, one often wishes to express not just single
equations, but entire families of equations between diagrams of arbitrary size.
To do this we define a class of context-free grammars, called B-ESG grammars,
that are suitable for defining entire families of string graphs, and crucially,
of string graph rewrite rules. We show that the language-membership and
match-enumeration problems are decidable for these grammars, and hence that
there is an algorithm for rewriting string graphs according to B-ESG rewrite
patterns. We also show that it is possible to reason at the level of grammars
by providing a simple method for transforming a grammar by string graph
rewriting, and showing admissibility of the induced B-ESG rewrite pattern.Comment: International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2015. The
final publication is available at Springer via
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21145-9_
Universal Constructions for (Co)Relations: categories, monoidal categories, and props
Calculi of string diagrams are increasingly used to present the syntax and
algebraic structure of various families of circuits, including signal flow
graphs, electrical circuits and quantum processes. In many such approaches, the
semantic interpretation for diagrams is given in terms of relations or
corelations (generalised equivalence relations) of some kind. In this paper we
show how semantic categories of both relations and corelations can be
characterised as colimits of simpler categories. This modular perspective is
important as it simplifies the task of giving a complete axiomatisation for
semantic equivalence of string diagrams. Moreover, our general result unifies
various theorems that are independently found in literature and are relevant
for program semantics, quantum computation and control theory.Comment: 22 pages + 3 page appendix, extended version of arXiv:1703.0824
Interacting Hopf Algebras
We introduce the theory IH of interacting Hopf algebras, parametrised over a
principal ideal domain R. The axioms of IH are derived using Lack's approach to
composing PROPs: they feature two Hopf algebra and two Frobenius algebra
structures on four different monoid-comonoid pairs. This construction is
instrumental in showing that IH is isomorphic to the PROP of linear relations
(i.e. subspaces) over the field of fractions of R
Colored props for large scale graphical reasoning
The prop formalism allows representation of processes withstring diagrams and
has been successfully applied in various areas such as quantum computing,
electric circuits and control flow graphs. However, these graphical approaches
suffer from scalability problems when it comes to writing large diagrams. A
proposal to tackle this issue has been investigated for ZX-calculus using
colored props. This paper extends the approach to any prop, making it a general
tool for graphical languages manipulation