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![]() Title:Ribbon tensorial logic Authors:Paul-André Melliès Conference:LICS18 Tags:balanced category, coherence theorems, dialogue category, monoidal category, ribbon category, ribbon dialogue category, ribbon tensorial logic and tensorial logic Abstract: We introduce a topologically-aware version of tensorial logic, called ribbon tensorial logic. To every proof of the logic, we associate a ribbon tangle which tracks the flow of tensorial negations inside the proof. The translation is functorial: it is performed by exhibiting a correspondence between the notion of dialogue category in proof theory and the notion of ribbon category in knot theory. Our main result is that the translation is also faithful: two proofs are equal modulo the equational theory of tensorial logic if and only if the associated ribbon tangles are equal up to topological deformation. This ``proof-as-tangle'' theorem may be understood at the same time as a coherence theorem for ribbon dialogue categories, and as a mathematical foundation for topological game semantics. Ribbon tensorial logic ![]() Ribbon tensorial logic | ||||
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