From: Micheal Mac an Airchinnigh <mmaa@eircom.net>
To: Steve Stevenson <steve@cs.clemson.edu>, categories@mta.ca
Subject: re: Automata as Categories
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:45:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p05210602baf051b22ac8@[10.0.1.2]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16074.18059.966602.668242@merlin.cs.clemson.edu>
At 11:15 -0400 2003/20/05, Steve Stevenson wrote:
>I am interested to find an article or book that is a category-
>theoretic redevelopment of "classical" automata. I'd like to find
>something that graduate students could use if they had already had an
>automata course and now would retrace that same development using
>category-theoretic vocabulary and means.
>
>Thanks in advance...
>
>steve
---
Hi Steve!
In my opinion, you're looking for stuff
on M-categories (M a Monoid)
and you're searching under keywords
like "action" --- initially left!
There is good material in Barr & Wells 1999.
(The 3rd edition)
or better groundwork ---
Lawvere and Rosebrugh 2003
[ though much of what you
eventually need is in the exercises :) ]
Micheal
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-20 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-20 15:15 Steve Stevenson
2003-05-20 19:57 ` John Maweu
2003-05-20 21:45 ` Micheal Mac an Airchinnigh [this message]
2003-05-21 7:19 Juergen Koslowski
2003-05-22 1:36 Keith Harbaugh
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