Cammy/Bikeshed
This page is an appendix for research done for Cammy which is too long and boring to be included on the main page.
Nomenclature
Most categorical objects are each a presentation of some wikipedia:universal property, but the current practice of mathematics does not have unambiguous symbols for most of them. Worse, most arrows do not have standard names, and sometimes not even standard titles.
The following table's rows are categorical arrows, and the columns are category theorists who have named them; each cell is a name. Our columns are:
In addition, we have three extra columns. Two are for the communities of Wikipedia and nLab respectively, and one is for Cammy.
Kerby's Category
Kerby gives a broad argument that their `i` combinator, which unquotes a single quotation and executes its stack effect, is a homomorphism. Indeed, we will imagine an entire category which routes quotations opaquely without executing them; to execute any expression in Kerby's category, simply suffix it with `i`. However, Kerby also gives a persuasive argument that lambda calculus is best understood with the identity arrow being the expression `A\A`, which corresponds precisely to `i`. We thus will use `i` for identity and reason from there.
Delta
One might expect that the usage of the Greek capital wikipedia:delta (letter) is definitely the Unicode codepoint U+0394 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA. However, Baez & Stay and Patterson use U+2206 INCREMENT, and Elliott uses U+25b3 WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE. This is almost certainly a typesetting issue. The table uses U+0394 (Δ) exclusively, for screen readers.
| WP | nLab | Cammy | Curien | Hagino | Von Thun | Kerby | Baez & Stay | Elliott | Patterson |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wikipedia:morphism#Identity | [1] | id | id | - | id | i | id | id | 1 |
| - | [2] | comp | ◦ | - | - | b | ◦ | ◦ | - |
| wikipedia:initial and terminal objects | [3] | ignore | 1 | ! | drop | zap | ! | it | I |
| wikipedia:product (category theory) | [4] | fst | Fst | pi1 | pop | k | p | exl | - |
| … | … | snd | Snd | pi2 | popd | z | p' | exr | - |
| … | … | pair | <,> | pair | - | c | - | Δ | - |
| … | … | pair/tensor | - | prod | - | - | ⊗ | - | ⊗ |
| wikipedia:diagonal morphism | [5] | pair/dup | - | - | dup | dup | Δ | - | Δ |
| wikipedia:coproduct | [6] | left | - | in1 | - | - | - | inl | - |
| … | … | right | - | in2 | - | - | - | inr | - |
| … | … | case | - | case | - | - | - | jam | - |
| wikipedia:monoidal category | [7] | assl | - | - | - | - | assoc | - | - |
| … | … | assr | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| wikipedia:free monoid | [8] | nil | - | nil | [] | - | - | - | - |
| … | … | cons | - | cons | cons | - | - | - | - |
| … | … | fold | - | prl | fold | - | - | - | - |
| wikipedia:symmetric monoidal category | [9] | swap | - | - | swap | swap | braid | - | σ |
| wikipedia:Cartesian closed category | [10] | curry | Λ | curry | - | - | ~ | curry | - |
| … | … | uncurry | - | - | - | - | - | uncurry | - |
| … | … | app | App | eval | b | - | eval | apply | - |
| wikipedia:natural numbers object | [11] | zero | - | zero | 0 | z0 | - | - | - |
| … | … | succ | - | succ | succ | - | - | - | - |
| … | … | pr | - | pr | primrec | - | - | - | - |