Classical Distributive Restriction Categories

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Autores principales: Cockett, Robin, Lemay, Jean-Simon Pacaud
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contents In the category of sets and partial functions, $\mathsf{PAR}$, while the disjoint union $\sqcup$ is the usual categorical coproduct, the Cartesian product $\times$ becomes a restriction categorical analogue of the categorical product: a restriction product. Nevertheless, $\mathsf{PAR}$ does have a usual categorical product as well in the form $A \& B := A \sqcup B \sqcup (A \times B)$. Surprisingly, asking that a distributive restriction category (a restriction category with restriction products $\times$ and coproducts $\oplus$) has $A \& B$ a categorical product is enough to imply that the category is a classical restriction category. This is a restriction category which has joins and relative complements and, thus, supports classical Boolean reasoning. The first and main observation of the paper is that a distributive restriction category is classical if and only if $A \& B := A \oplus B \oplus (A \times B)$ is a categorical product in which case we call $\&$ the ''classical'' product. In fact, a distributive restriction category has a categorical product if and only if it is a classified restriction category. This is in the sense that every map $A \to B$ factors uniquely through a total map $A \to B \oplus \mathsf{1}$, where $\mathsf{1}$ is the restriction terminal object. This implies the second significant observation of the paper, namely, that a distributive restriction category has a classical product if and only if it is the Kleisli category of the exception monad $\_ \oplus \mathsf{1}$ for an ordinary distributive category. Thus having a classical product has a significant structural effect on a distributive restriction category. In particular, the classical product not only provides an alternative axiomatization for being classical but also for being the Kleisli category of the exception monad on an ordinary distributive category.
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Cockett, Robin
Lemay, Jean-Simon Pacaud
Category Theory
Logic in Computer Science
In the category of sets and partial functions, $\mathsf{PAR}$, while the disjoint union $\sqcup$ is the usual categorical coproduct, the Cartesian product $\times$ becomes a restriction categorical analogue of the categorical product: a restriction product. Nevertheless, $\mathsf{PAR}$ does have a usual categorical product as well in the form $A \& B := A \sqcup B \sqcup (A \times B)$. Surprisingly, asking that a distributive restriction category (a restriction category with restriction products $\times$ and coproducts $\oplus$) has $A \& B$ a categorical product is enough to imply that the category is a classical restriction category. This is a restriction category which has joins and relative complements and, thus, supports classical Boolean reasoning. The first and main observation of the paper is that a distributive restriction category is classical if and only if $A \& B := A \oplus B \oplus (A \times B)$ is a categorical product in which case we call $\&$ the ''classical'' product. In fact, a distributive restriction category has a categorical product if and only if it is a classified restriction category. This is in the sense that every map $A \to B$ factors uniquely through a total map $A \to B \oplus \mathsf{1}$, where $\mathsf{1}$ is the restriction terminal object. This implies the second significant observation of the paper, namely, that a distributive restriction category has a classical product if and only if it is the Kleisli category of the exception monad $\_ \oplus \mathsf{1}$ for an ordinary distributive category. Thus having a classical product has a significant structural effect on a distributive restriction category. In particular, the classical product not only provides an alternative axiomatization for being classical but also for being the Kleisli category of the exception monad on an ordinary distributive category.
title Classical Distributive Restriction Categories
topic Category Theory
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16524