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Combinatory Completeness in Structured Multicategories

Published: November 21, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.17152v1

By: Ivan Kuzmin , Chad Nester , Ülo Reimaa and more

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We give a general notion of combinatory completeness with respect to a faithful cartesian club and use it systematically to obtain characterisations of a number of different kinds of applicative system. Each faithful cartesian club determines a notion of structured multicategory, with the different notions of structured multicategory obtained in this way giving different notions of polynomial over an applicative system, which in turn give different notions of combinatory completeness. We obtain the classical characterisation of combinatory algebras as combinatory complete applicative systems as a specific instance.

Page Count
20 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Category Theory