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The duality between flow charts and circuits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

S. Kasangian
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universitá di Milano via Saldini, 50 Milano, Italy
R.F.C. Walters
Affiliation:
Department of Pure, Mathematics University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Abstract

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This paper contains a precise description of the duality between the formal evolutions of flow charts and of circuits. In addition, it contains a new description of the free category-with-products on a multigraph as a familially representable construction.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1990

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