Computational Effects in Topological Domain Theory
Author(s) -
Ingo Battenfeld
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
electronic notes in theoretical computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.242
H-Index - 60
ISSN - 1571-0661
DOI - 10.1016/j.entcs.2006.04.005
Subject(s) - subcategory , denotational semantics , mathematics , domain theory , countable set , quotient , expressive power , category theory , range (aeronautics) , pure mathematics , algebra over a field , topology (electrical circuits) , discrete mathematics , semantics (computer science) , computer science , theoretical computer science , combinatorics , operational semantics , programming language , materials science , composite material
This paper contributes towards establishing the category QCB, of topological quotients of countably based spaces, and its subcategory TP, of topological predomains, as a flexible framework for denotational semantics of programming languages. In particular, we show that both categories have free algebras for arbitrary countable parametrised equational theories, and are thus, following ideas of Plotkin and Power, able to model a wide range of computational effects. Furthermore, we give an explicit construction of the free algebras
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