Non-well-founded trees in categories

dc.creatorBerg, Benno van den
dc.creatorde Marchi, Federico
dc.date2004-09-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:11:59Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:11:59Z
dc.descriptionNon-well-founded trees are used in mathematics and computer science, for modelling non-well-founded sets, as well as non-terminating processes or infinite data-structures. Categorically, they arise as final coalgebras for polynomial endofunctors, which we call M-types. In order to reason about trees, we need the notion of path, which can be formalised in the internal logic of any locally cartesian closed pretopos with a natural number object. In such categories, we derive existence results about M-types, leading to stability of locally cartesian closed pretoposes with a natural number object and M-types under slicing, formation of coalgebras (for a cartesian comonad), and sheaves for an internal site.
dc.descriptionSubmitted for publication
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409158
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409158
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/72428
dc.subjectCategory Theory
dc.subject18A15;68Q55;68Q65
dc.titleNon-well-founded trees in categories
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