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The Hidden Strength of Costrong Functors

Published: September 16, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2509.13026v1

By: Adriana Balan, Silviu-George Pantelimon

Potential Business Impact:

Makes computer programs understand context better.

Business Areas:
Quantum Computing Science and Engineering

Strong functors and monads are ubiquitous in Computer Science. More recently, comonads have demonstrated their use in structuring context-dependent notions of computation. However, the dualisation of ``being strong'' property passed somehow unobserved so far. We argue that ``being costrong'' gives a different understanding of how functors can interact with monoidal structures. This work in progress aims to explore costrong functors and their natural properties, with an eye towards the semantics of computations.

Page Count
14 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Logic in Computer Science