Directed algebraic topology and higher dimensional transition systems

zbMATH Open1250.18004arXiv0903.4276MaRDI QIDQ634450FDOQ634450

Philippe Gaucher

Publication date: 2 August 2011

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Cattani-Sassone's notion of higher dimensional transition system is interpreted as a small-orthogonality class of a locally finitely presentable topological category of weak higher dimensional transition systems. In particular, the higher dimensional transition system associated with the labelled n-cube turns out to be the free higher dimensional transition system generated by one n-dimensional transition. As a first application of this construction, it is proved that a localization of the category of higher dimensional transition systems is equivalent to a locally finitely presentable reflective full subcategory of the category of labelled symmetric precubical sets. A second application is to Milner's calculus of communicating systems (CCS): the mapping taking process names in CCS to flows is factorized through the category of higher dimensional transition systems. The method also applies to other process algebras and to topological models of concurrency other than flows.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4276

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zbMATH Keywords

locally presentable categorymodel categorytopological categorydirected homotopyhigher-dimensional transition systemlabelled symmetric precubical setMilner calculus of communicating systemssmall-orthogonality class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Adjoint functors (universal constructions, reflective subcategories, Kan extensions, etc.) (18A40) Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20) Models and methods for concurrent and distributed computing (process algebras, bisimulation, transition nets, etc.) (68Q85) Functor categories, comma categories (18A25) Accessible and locally presentable categories (18C35)

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