Guard your daggers and traces: properties of guarded (co-)recursion

DOI10.3233/FI-2017-1475zbMATH1375.68042MaRDI QIDQ4589616FDOQ4589616

Authors Stefan Milius, Tadeusz Litak

Publication date 10 November 2017

Published in Fundamenta Informaticae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05214

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical aspects of software engineering (specification, verification, metrics, requirements, etc.) (68N30) Theories (e.g., algebraic theories), structure, and semantics (18C10) Closed categories (closed monoidal and Cartesian closed categories, etc.) (18D15) Semantics in the theory of computing (68Q55)

Abstract: Motivated by the recent interest in models of guarded (co-)recursion, we study their equational properties. We formulate axioms for guarded fixpoint operators generalizing the axioms of iteration theories of Bloom and 'Esik. Models of these axioms include both standard (e.g., cpo-based) models of iteration theories and models of guarded recursion such as complete metric spaces or the topos of trees studied by Birkedal et al. We show that the standard result on the satisfaction of all Conway axioms by a unique dagger operation generalizes to the guarded setting. We also introduce the notion of guarded trace operator on a category, and we prove that guarded trace and guarded fixpoint operators are in one-to-one correspondence. Our results are intended as first steps leading, hopefully, towards future description of classifying theories for guarded recursion.

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