Chu's construction: a proof-theoretic approach

  • Authors:
  • Gianluigi Bellin

  • Affiliations:
  • Facoltà di Scienze, Università di Verona

  • Venue:
  • Logic for concurrency and synchronisation
  • Year:
  • 2003

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The essential interaction between classical and intuitionistic features in the system of linear logic is best described in the language of category theory. Given a symmetric monoidal closed category C with products, the category C × Cop can be given the structure of a *-autonomous category by a special case of the Chu construction. The main result of the paper is to show that the intuitionistic translations induced by Girard's trips determine the functor from the free *-autonomous category A on a set of atoms {P, P',...} to C × Cop, where C is the free monoidal closed category with products and coproducts on the set of atoms {PO, PI, P'O, P'I,... } (a pair PO, PI in C for each atom P of A).