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Main Authors: Boateng, Luisa, Marcolli, Matilde
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09688
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author Boateng, Luisa
Marcolli, Matilde
author_facet Boateng, Luisa
Marcolli, Matilde
contents A construction that assigns a Boolean 1D TQFT with defects to a finite state automaton was recently developed by Gustafson, Im, Kaldawy, Khovanov, and Lihn. We show that the construction is functorial with respect to the category of finite state automata with transducers as morphisms. Certain classes of subregular languages correspond to additional cohomological structures on the associated TQFTs. We also show that the construction generalizes to context-free grammars through a categorical version of the Chomsky-Schützenberger representation theorem, due to Melliès and Zeilberger. The corresponding TQFTs are then described as morphisms of colored operads on an operad of cobordisms with defects.
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spellingShingle Formal Languages and TQFTs with Defects
Boateng, Luisa
Marcolli, Matilde
Mathematical Physics
Computation and Language
Quantum Algebra
68Q45, 81T45
A construction that assigns a Boolean 1D TQFT with defects to a finite state automaton was recently developed by Gustafson, Im, Kaldawy, Khovanov, and Lihn. We show that the construction is functorial with respect to the category of finite state automata with transducers as morphisms. Certain classes of subregular languages correspond to additional cohomological structures on the associated TQFTs. We also show that the construction generalizes to context-free grammars through a categorical version of the Chomsky-Schützenberger representation theorem, due to Melliès and Zeilberger. The corresponding TQFTs are then described as morphisms of colored operads on an operad of cobordisms with defects.
title Formal Languages and TQFTs with Defects
topic Mathematical Physics
Computation and Language
Quantum Algebra
68Q45, 81T45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09688