# Hypergraph Categories

@article{Fong2019HypergraphC,
title={Hypergraph Categories},
author={Brendan Fong and David I. Spivak},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2019},
volume={abs/1806.08304}
}
• Published 21 June 2018
• Mathematics
• ArXiv
24 Citations
Supplying bells and whistles in symmetric monoidal categories.
• Mathematics
• 2019
It is common to encounter symmetric monoidal categories $\mathcal{C}$ for which every object is equipped with an algebraic structure, in a way that is compatible with the monoidal product and unit in
Structured Cospans
• Mathematics
• 2019
One goal of applied category theory is to better understand networks appearing throughout science and engineering. Here we introduce "structured cospans" as a way to study networks with inputs and
Regular and relational categories: Revisiting 'Cartesian bicategories I'
• Philosophy, Mathematics
• 2019
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Monoidal Grothendieck Construction
• Mathematics
• 2018
We lift the standard equivalence between fibrations and indexed categories to an equivalence between monoidal fibrations and monoidal indexed categories, namely weak monoidal pseudofunctors to the
String Diagrams for Regular Logic (Extended Abstract)
• Mathematics
ACT
• 2019
The syntax and proof rules of regular logic are understood in terms of the free regular category FRg(T) on a set T to show that every natural category has an associated regular calculus, and conversely from every regular calculus one can construct a regular category.
C T ] 2 0 Ju n 20 19 Graphical Regular Logic
• Mathematics, Philosophy
• 2019
Regular logic can be regarded as the internal language of regular categories, but the logic itself is generally not given a categorical treatment. In this paper, we understand the syntax and proof
String Diagram Rewrite Theory I: Rewriting with Frobenius Structure
• Computer Science
J. ACM
• 2022
This work introduces a combinatorial interpretation of string diagram rewriting modulo Frobenius structures in terms of double-pushout hypergraph rewriting, and proves this interpretation to be sound and complete and shows that the approach can be generalised to rewrite modulo multiple Frobenii structures.
Wiring diagrams as normal forms for computing in symmetric monoidal categories
• Computer Science
ACT
• 2020
An "unbiased" approach to implementing symmetric monoidal categories, based on an operad of directed, acyclic wiring diagrams, is presented, because the interchange law and other laws of a SMC hold identically in a wiring diagram.
Regular Calculi I: Graphical Regular Logic
• Mathematics
• 2021
What is ergonomic syntax for relations? In this first paper in a series of two, to answer the question we define regular calculi: a suitably structured functor from a category representing the syntax

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