Elgot Categories and Abacus Programs

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Main Author: Nester, Chad
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contents We introduce Elgot categories, a sort of distributive monoidal category with additional structure in which the partial recursive functions are representable. Moreover, we construct an initial Elgot category, the morphisms of which coincide with a lightly modified version of Lambek's abacus programs. The partial functions that are strongly representable in this initial Elgot category are precisely the partial recursive ones.
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spellingShingle Elgot Categories and Abacus Programs
Nester, Chad
Category Theory
Logic in Computer Science
We introduce Elgot categories, a sort of distributive monoidal category with additional structure in which the partial recursive functions are representable. Moreover, we construct an initial Elgot category, the morphisms of which coincide with a lightly modified version of Lambek's abacus programs. The partial functions that are strongly representable in this initial Elgot category are precisely the partial recursive ones.
title Elgot Categories and Abacus Programs
topic Category Theory
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21434