Evolution systems: amalgamation, absorption, and termination
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Abstract: We introduce the concept of an abstract evolution system, which provides a convenient framework for studying generic mathematical structures and their properties. Roughly speaking, an evolution system is a category endowed with a selected class of morphisms called transitions, and with a selected object called the origin. We illustrate it by a series of examples from several areas of mathematics. We formulate sufficient conditions for the existence of the unique ``most complicated evolution. In case the evolution system ``lives in model theory and nontrivial transitions are one-point extensions, the limit of the most complicated evolution is known under the name Fraisse limit, a unique countable universal homogeneous model determined by a fixed class of finitely generated models satisfying some obvious axioms. Evolution systems can also be viewed as a generalization of abstract rewriting systems, where the partially ordered set is replaced by a category. In our setting, the process of rewriting plays a nontrivial role, whereas in rewriting systems only the result of a rewriting procedure is relevant. An analogue of Newman's Lemma holds in our setting, although the proof is a bit more delicate, nevertheless, still based on Huet's idea using well founded induction.
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