About И-quantifiers

Gabbay and Pitts observed that the Fraenkel–Mostowski model of set-theory supports useful notions of “name-abstraction” and “fresh-name”. In order to understand their work in a more general setting we introduce the notions of И-units and И-relations in a regular category D. A И-relation is given by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Menni, Matías
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/138799
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/138799
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Informática
quantifiers
adjoint functors
variable binding
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Sumario:Gabbay and Pitts observed that the Fraenkel–Mostowski model of set-theory supports useful notions of “name-abstraction” and “fresh-name”. In order to understand their work in a more general setting we introduce the notions of И-units and И-relations in a regular category D. A И-relation is given by a functor A # (-):D→D and we show that in the case that D is a topos then A # (-) has a right adjoint [A](-) that can be thought of as an object of abstractions. We also explore the existence of a right adjoint to [A](-) and relate it to the “name swapping” operations considered as fundamental by Gabbay and Pitts. We present many examples of categories where this notions occur and we relate the results here with Pitts' Nominal Logic.