The difference λ-calculus: a language for difference categories

Cartesian difference categories are a recent generalisation of Cartesian differential categories which introduce a notion of "infinitesimal" arrows satisfying an analogue of the Kock-Lawvere axiom, with the axioms of a Cartesian differential category being satisfied only "up to an inf...

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Autores principales: Alvarez-Picallo, M, Ong, CL
Formato: Conference item
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik 2020
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Sumario:Cartesian difference categories are a recent generalisation of Cartesian differential categories which introduce a notion of "infinitesimal" arrows satisfying an analogue of the Kock-Lawvere axiom, with the axioms of a Cartesian differential category being satisfied only "up to an infinitesimal perturbation". In this work, we construct a simply-typed calculus in the spirit of the differential λ-calculus equipped with syntactic "infinitesimals" and show how its models correspond to difference λ-categories, a family of Cartesian difference categories equipped with suitably well-behaved exponentials.