At 11:15 -0400 2003/20/05, Steve Stevenson wrote:
I am interested to find an article or book that is a category- theoretic redevelopment of "classical" automata. I'd like to find something that graduate students could use if they had already had an automata course and now would retrace that same development using category-theoretic vocabulary and means.
Thanks in advance...
steve
Hi Steve! In my opinion, you're looking for stuff on M-categories (M a Monoid) and you're searching under keywords like "action" --- initially left! There is good material in Barr & Wells 1999. (The 3rd edition) or better groundwork --- Lawvere and Rosebrugh 2003 [ though much of what you eventually need is in the exercises :) ] Micheal -- ... o O o O o ... USUK WAR ON UN 20030320+... USUK WAR PART II 20030501+... ... o O o O o ... --- Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh 5 Parson's Street Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland mailto:micheal1@mac.com mailto:mmaa@eircom.net