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Lax Logical Relations
Lax logical relations are a categorical generalisation of logical
relations; though they preserve product types, they need not preserve
exponential types. But, like logical relations, they are preserved by the
meanings of all lambda-calculus terms.We show that lax logical relations
coincide with the correspondences of Schoett, the algebraic relations of
Mitchell and the pre-logical relations of Honsell and Sannella on Henkin
models, but also generalise naturally to models in cartesian closed categories
and to richer languages
Uniform Interpolation for Coalgebraic Fixpoint Logic
We use the connection between automata and logic to prove that a wide class
of coalgebraic fixpoint logics enjoys uniform interpolation. To this aim, first
we generalize one of the central results in coalgebraic automata theory, namely
closure under projection, which is known to hold for weak-pullback preserving
functors, to a more general class of functors, i.e.; functors with
quasi-functorial lax extensions. Then we will show that closure under
projection implies definability of the bisimulation quantifier in the language
of coalgebraic fixpoint logic, and finally we prove the uniform interpolation
theorem
A categorical approach to the maximum theorem
Berge's maximum theorem gives conditions ensuring the continuity of an
optimised function as a parameter changes. In this paper we state and prove the
maximum theorem in terms of the theory of monoidal topology and the theory of
double categories.
This approach allows us to generalise (the main assertion of) the maximum
theorem, which is classically stated for topological spaces, to
pseudotopological spaces and pretopological spaces, as well as to closure
spaces, approach spaces and probabilistic approach spaces, amongst others. As a
part of this we prove a generalisation of the extreme value theorem.Comment: 45 pages. Minor changes in v2: this is the final preprint for
publication in JPA
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