Catoids, Categories, Groupoids

Georg Struth 📧

August 14, 2023

Abstract

This AFP entry formalises catoids, which are generalisations of single-set categories, and groupoids. More specifically, in catoids, the partial composition of arrows in a category is generalised to a multioperation, which sends pairs of elements to sets of elements, and the definedness condition of arrow composition -- two arrows can be composed if and only the target of the first matches the source of the second -- is relaxed. Beyond a library of basic laws for catoids, single-set categories and groupoids, I formalise the facts that every catoid can be lifted to a modal powerset quantale, that every groupoid can be lifted to a Dedekind quantale and to power set relation algebras, a special case of a famous result of JĂłnsson and Tarski. Finally, I show that single-set categories are equivalent to a standard axiomatisation of categories based on a set of objects and a set of arrows, and compare catoids with related structures such as multimonoid and relational monoids (monoids in the monoidal category Rel).

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Session Catoids