Re: Red and blue (again)

"David J. Pym" <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:54:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.science.mathematics.frogs
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>
> In linear logic, this works for all connectives but not for the 
> modalities: differently coloured modalities are independent, they 
> aren't equivalent.
>
Well that's good.

Mathematical models of linear logic's proof theory (MLL!, for simplicity)
are given by monoidal categories (for tensor, implication, etc) with a
monoidal co-monad for the exponential, ! .

There is no reason why (the co-algebras for) two different monoidal 
co-monads
should be equivalent. So it would be unfortunate if there 
axiomatizations were
equivalent (no completeness, for one thing).

David

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