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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.77

Preservation of Equations by Monoidal Monads

Authors: Louis Parlant, Jurriaan Rot, Alexandra Silva, and Bas Westerbaan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 170, 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)

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If a monad T is monoidal, then operations on a set X can be lifted canonically to operations on TX. In this paper we study structural properties under which T preserves equations between those operations. It has already been shown that any monoidal monad preserves linear equations; affine monads preserve drop equations (where some variable appears only on one side, such as x⋅ y = y) and relevant monads preserve dup equations (where some variable is duplicated, such as x ⋅ x = x). We start the paper by showing a converse: if the monad at hand preserves a drop equation, then it must be affine. From this, we show that the problem whether a given (drop) equation is preserved is undecidable. A converse for relevance turns out to be more subtle: preservation of certain dup equations implies a weaker notion which we call n-relevance. Finally, we identify a subclass of equations such that their preservation is equivalent to relevance.

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Louis Parlant, Jurriaan Rot, Alexandra Silva, and Bas Westerbaan. Preservation of Equations by Monoidal Monads. In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 170, pp. 77:1-77:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{parlant_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.77,
  author =	{Parlant, Louis and Rot, Jurriaan and Silva, Alexandra and Westerbaan, Bas},
  title =	{{Preservation of Equations by Monoidal Monads}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)},
  pages =	{77:1--77:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-159-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{170},
  editor =	{Esparza, Javier and Kr\'{a}l', Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.77},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-127460},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.77},
  annote =	{Keywords: monoidal monads, algebraic theories, preservation of equations}
}

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