Critical Pairs in Network Rewriting

• This extended abstract breifly introduces rewriting of networks (directed acyclic graphs with the extra structure needed to serve as expressions for PROducts and Permutations categories) and describes the critical pairs aspects of this theory. The author's interest in these comes from wanting to do equational reasoning in algebraic theories (such as Hopf algebras) that mix ordinary operations with co-operations; networks then serve as a formalism for expressions.The main message is to point out two phenomena that arise in network rewriting. The first is that of non-convexity of rules, wherein the left hand side of a rule need not be syntactically similar to a symbol in any extension of the underlying signature. The second is one of critical pairs potentially arising where two redexes wrap around each other even when they do not intersect.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Algebra och logik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Algebra and Logic (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Diskret matematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Discrete Mathematics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

network

PROP

critical pair

ambiguity

confluence

wrap ambiguity

Mathematics/Applied Mathematics

matematik/tillämpad matematik

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