Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
This extended abstract first presents a new category theoretic approach to equationally axiomatizable classes of algebras. This approach is well-suited for the treatment of algebras equipped with additional computationally relevant structure, such as ordered algebras, continuous algebras, quantitative algebras, nominal algebras, or profinite algebras. We present a generic HSP theorem and a sound and complete equational logic, which encompass numerous flavors of equational axiomizations studied in the literature. In addition, we use the generic HSP theorem as a key ingredient to obtain Eilenberg-type correspondences yielding algebraic characterizations of properties of regular machine behaviours. When instantiated for orbit-finite nominal monoids, the generic HSP theorem yields a crucial step for the proof of the first Eilenberg-type variety theorem for data languages.
@InProceedings{milius:LIPIcs.CALCO.2019.2,
author = {Milius, Stefan},
title = {{From Equational Specifications of Algebras with Structure to Varieties of Data Languages}},
booktitle = {8th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2019)},
pages = {2:1--2:5},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-120-7},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2019},
volume = {139},
editor = {Roggenbach, Markus and Sokolova, Ana},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2019.2},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-114309},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2019.2},
annote = {Keywords: Birkhoff theorem, Equational logic, Eilenberg theorem, Data languages}
}