All hypergraph categories are decorated corelation categories
Brendan Fong – 14 December 2016
Hypergraph categories are symmetric monoidal categories in which every object is equipped with a special commutative Frobenius monoid (with a coherence condition). Morphisms in a hypergraph category can hence be represented by string diagrams in which strings can branch and split: diagrams (hypergraphs) that are reminiscent of electrical circuit diagrams. As such they provide a framework for formalising the syntax and semantics of circuit-type diagrammatic languages.In this talk I will introduce decorated corelations as a tool for building hypergraph categories and hypergraph functors. We shall see that all hypergraph categories and hypergraph functors can be constructed in this way.
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