Sesqui-Pushout Rewriting: Concurrency, Associativity and Rule Algebra Framework

Sesqui-pushout (SqPO) rewriting is a variant of transformations of graph-like and other types of structures that fit into the framework of adhesive categories where deletion in unknown context may be implemented. We provide the first account of a concurrency theorem for this important type of rewrit...

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Main Author: Nicolas Behr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2019-12-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08357v2
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Summary:Sesqui-pushout (SqPO) rewriting is a variant of transformations of graph-like and other types of structures that fit into the framework of adhesive categories where deletion in unknown context may be implemented. We provide the first account of a concurrency theorem for this important type of rewriting, and we demonstrate the additional mathematical property of a form of associativity for these theories. Associativity may then be exploited to construct so-called rule algebras (of SqPO type), based upon which in particular a universal framework of continuous-time Markov chains for stochastic SqPO rewriting systems may be realized.
ISSN:2075-2180