Monoidal computer III: A coalgebraic view of computability and complexity
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Publication:6285595
DOI10.1007/978-3-030-00389-0_10arXiv1704.04882MaRDI QIDQ6285595FDOQ6285595
Publication date: 17 April 2017
Abstract: Monoidal computer is a categorical model of intensional computation, where many different programs correspond to the same input-output behavior. The upshot of yet another model of computation is that a categorical formalism should provide a much needed high level language for theory of computation, flexible enough to allow abstracting away the low level implementation details when they are irrelevant, or taking them into account when they are genuinely needed. A salient feature of the approach through monoidal categories is the formal graphical language of string diagrams, which supports visual reasoning about programs and computations. In the present paper, we provide a coalgebraic characterization of monoidal computer. It turns out that the availability of interpreters and specializers, that make a monoidal category into a monoidal computer, is equivalent with the existence of a *universal state space*, that carries a weakly final state machine for any pair of input and output types. Being able to program state machines in monoidal computers allows us to represent Turing machines, to capture their execution, count their steps, as well as, e.g., the memory cells that they use. The coalgebraic view of monoidal computer thus provides a convenient diagrammatic language for studying computability and complexity.
Other nonclassical models of computation (68Q09) Complexity of computation (including implicit computational complexity) (03D15) Abstract and axiomatic computability and recursion theory (03D75) String diagrams and graphical calculi (18M30)
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