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# Structured versus Decorated Cospans

@inproceedings{Baez2021StructuredVD,
title={Structured versus Decorated Cospans},
author={John C. Baez and Kenny Courser and Christina Vasilakopoulou},
year={2021}
}
• Published 2021
• Mathematics
One goal of applied category theory is to understand open systems. We compare two ways of describing open systems as cospans equipped with extra data. First, given a functor L : A → X, a ‘structured cospan’ is a diagram in X of the form L(a)→ x← L(b). If A and X have finite colimits and L preserves them, it is known that there is a symmetric monoidal double category whose objects are those of A and whose horizontal 1-cells are structured cospans. Second, given a pseudofunctor F : A → Cat, a… Expand
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