# Categories of Nets

@article{Baez2021CategoriesON,
title={Categories of Nets},
author={John C. Baez and Fabrizio Genovese and Jade Master and Michael Shulman},
journal={2021 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)},
year={2021},
pages={1-13}
}
• Published 11 January 2021
• Computer Science
• 2021 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
We present a unified framework for Petri nets and various variants, such as pre-nets and Kock’s whole-grain Petri nets. Our framework is based on a less well-studied notion that we call Σ-nets, which allow fine-grained control over whether each transition behaves according to the collective or individual token philosophy. We describe three forms of execution semantics in which pre-nets generate strict monoidal categories, Σ-nets (including whole-grain Petri nets) generate symmetric strict…
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