Adhesive and quasiadhesive categories

Stephen Lack; Paweł Sobociński

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications (2010)

  • Volume: 39, Issue: 3, page 511-545
  • ISSN: 0988-3754

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We introduce adhesive categories, which are categories with structure ensuring that pushouts along monomorphisms are well-behaved, as well as quasiadhesive categories which restrict attention to regular monomorphisms. Many examples of graphical structures used in computer science are shown to be examples of adhesive and quasiadhesive categories. Double-pushout graph rewriting generalizes well to rewriting on arbitrary adhesive and quasiadhesive categories.

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Lack, Stephen, and Sobociński, Paweł. "Adhesive and quasiadhesive categories." RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications 39.3 (2010): 511-545. <http://eudml.org/doc/92777>.

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