Decorated Corelations

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Abstract: Let mathcalC be a category with finite colimits, and let (mathcalE,mathcalM) be a factorisation system on mathcalC with mathcalM stable under pushouts. Writing mathcalC;mathcalMmathrmop for the symmetric monoidal category with morphisms cospans of the form stackrelcostackrelmleftarrow, where cinmathcalC and minmathcalM, we give method for constructing a category from a symmetric lax monoidal functor Fcolon(mathcalC;mathcalMmathrmop,+)o(mathrmSet,imes). A morphism in this category, termed a emph{decorated corelation}, comprises (i) a cospan XoNleftarrowY in mathcalC such that the canonical copairing X+YoN lies in mathcalE, together with (ii) an element of FN. Functors between decorated corelation categories can be constructed from natural transformations between the decorating functors F. This provides a general method for constructing hypergraph categories---symmetric monoidal categories in which each object is a special commutative Frobenius monoid in a coherent way---and their functors. Such categories are useful for modelling network languages, for example circuit diagrams, and such functors their semantics.












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