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No-go theorems for distributive laws

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Monads are commonplace in computer science, and can be composed using Beck's distributive laws. Unfortunately, finding distributive laws can be extremely difficult and error-prone. The literature contains some principles for constructing distributive laws. However, until now there have been no general techniques for establishing when no such law exists. We present two families of theorems for showing when there can be no distributive law for two monads. The first widely generalizes a counte...

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Published
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10.1109/LICS.2019.8785707

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS Division
Department:
Computer Science
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
Oxford college:
Nuffield College
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Author
Publisher:
IEEE Publisher's website
Host title:
2019 34th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
Journal:
Symposium on Logic in Computer Science Journal website
Publication date:
2019-08-05
Acceptance date:
2019-03-28
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9781728136080
Pubs id:
pubs:987522
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uuid:68a5d72f-7c72-4357-a409-edad6d1d4e33
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pubs:987522
Source identifiers:
987522
Deposit date:
2019-04-04

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