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String Diagram Rewriting Modulo Commutative (Co)Monoid Structure

Milosavljević, A; Piedeleu, R; Zanasi, F; (2023) String Diagram Rewriting Modulo Commutative (Co)Monoid Structure. In: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2023). (pp. pp. 1-17). Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Green open access

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Abstract

String diagrams constitute an intuitive and expressive graphical syntax that has found application in a very diverse range of fields including concurrency theory, quantum computing, control theory, machine learning, linguistics, and digital circuits. Rewriting theory for string diagrams relies on a combinatorial interpretation as double-pushout rewriting of certain hypergraphs. As previously studied, there is a “tension” in this interpretation: in order to make it sound and complete, we either need to add structure on string diagrams (in particular, Frobenius algebra structure) or pose restrictions on double-pushout rewriting (resulting in “convex” rewriting). From the string diagram viewpoint, imposing a full Frobenius structure may not always be natural or desirable in applications, which motivates our study of a weaker requirement: commutative monoid structure. In this work we characterise string diagram rewriting modulo commutative monoid equations, via a sound and complete interpretation in a suitable notion of double-pushout rewriting of hypergraphs.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: String Diagram Rewriting Modulo Commutative (Co)Monoid Structure
Event: 10th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2023)
ISBN-13: 978-3-95977-287-7
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2023.9
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2023.9
Language: English
Additional information: © The Authors 2023. Original content in this paper is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: String diagrams, Double-pushout rewriting, Commutative monoid
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178669
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