Internal Languages for Autonomous and *-Autonomous Categories

نویسندگان

  • Thong wei Koh
  • C.-H. Luke Ong
چکیده

We introduce a family of type theories as internal languages for autonomous (or symmetric monoidal closed) and-autonomous categories, in the same sense that the simply-typed-calculus with surjective pairing is the internal language for cartesian closed categories. The rules for the typing judgements are presented in the style of Gentzen's Sequent Calculus. A notable feature is the systematic treatment of naturality conditions by expressing the categorical composition, or cut in the type theory, by explicit substitution. We use let-constructs, one for each of the three type constructors >; and (, to witness the left-introduction rules, and a Parigot-style-abstraction to express the involutive negation ?. We show that the eight equality and three commutation congruence axioms of the-autonomous type theory characterise-autonomous categories exactly. More precisely we prove that there is a canonical interpretation of the (autonomous) type theories in-autonomous categories which is complete i.e. for any type theory, there is a model (i.e.-autonomous category) whose theory is exactly that. The associated rewrite systems are all strongly normalising; modulo a simple notion of congruence, they are also connuent. As a corollary, we solve a Coherence Problem a la Lambek 11]: the equality of maps in any-autonomous category freely generated from a discrete graph is decidable.

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

The Effect of Explicit Consciousness-Raising of Autonomous Learning Activities on Iranian EFL Students’ Achievement Test Scores

This study set out to examine the effect of explicit consciousness-raising of autonomous learning activities on a group of students’ General English achievement test scores following a mixed methods design. At the beginning of the study, four intact classes were selected based on their availability, of which one class was assigned to the experimental group and the others to the control groups, ...

متن کامل

Autonomous and Non-Autonomous EFL Learners’ Strategies and Practices

Abstract The present study aimed at discovering the practices and strategies autonomous EFL learners pursue in their endeavor to master English. It thus set out in the Iranian context, with 60 EFL learners, both autonomous and non-autonomous, as participants. The gathered data through a questionnaire and an interview were subjected to content and descriptive analysis. The results showed that bo...

متن کامل

Autonomous and Non-Autonomous EFL Learners’ Strategies and Practices

Abstract The present study aimed at discovering the practices and strategies autonomous EFL learners pursue in their endeavor to master English. It thus set out in the Iranian context, with 60 EFL learners, both autonomous and non-autonomous, as participants. The gathered data through a questionnaire and an interview were subjected to content and descriptive analysis. The results showed that bo...

متن کامل

Brain multi-infarct and decompression sickness

Scuba diving is associated with an important risk of devel­oping decompression sickness secondary to formation of gas bubbles inside the body. The latter is formed mainly by nitrogen in the body on the diver’s way to the surface (1,2). In some cases, it might injure the central nervous system. Several decompression cases that have been asso­ciated with neurologic symptoms are described in the l...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci.

دوره 29  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999