Rewriting in categories of spans

Single-pushout transformation in a category of spans, in some sense a generalization of the usual notion of partial morphism, is studied in this paper. Contrary to the usual notion of partial morphism, spans are single objects instead of equivalence classes. A necessary condition for the existence o...

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Autores: Monserrat, Miquel, Rosselló, Francesc, Torrens, Joan, Valiente Feruglio, Gabriel Alejandro|||0000-0001-9194-2703
Formato: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:1996
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/82838
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/82838
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Graph rewriting
Algebraic graph transformation
Single-pushout approach
Partial algebra
Hypergraph
Span
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Resumo:Single-pushout transformation in a category of spans, in some sense a generalization of the usual notion of partial morphism, is studied in this paper. Contrary to the usual notion of partial morphism, spans are single objects instead of equivalence classes. A necessary condition for the existence of the pushout of two spans is established which involves properties of the base category, from which the category of spans is derived, as well as properties of the spans themselves. Several interesting categories of partial morphisms of hypergraphs are proved to satisfy the necessary condition.