ETAS interpretation
ETAS is the acronym for the “Elementary Theory of Abstract Supercategories” as defined by the
axioms of metacategories and supercategories.
The following are simple examples of supercategories
that are essentially interpretations of the eight ETAC axioms reported by W. F. Lawvere (1968), with one or several ETAS axioms added as indicated in the examples listed. A family, or class, of a specific level (or 'order')
of a supercategory
(with
being an integer) is defined by the specific ETAS axioms
added to the eight ETAC axioms; thus, for
, there are no additional ETAS axioms and the supercategory
is the limiting, lower type, currently defined as a category
with only one composition law
and any standard interpretation of the eight ETAC axioms. Thus, the first level of 'proper' supercategory
is defined as an interpretation of ETAS axioms S1 and S2; for
, the supercategory
is defined as an interpretation of the eight ETAC axioms plus the additional three ETAS axioms: S2, S3 and S4. Any (proper) recursive formula
or 'function' can be utilized to generate supercategories at levels
higher than
by adding composition
or consistency laws to the ETAS axioms S1 to S4, thus allowing a digital computer
algorithm
to generate any finite level supercategory
syntax, to which one needs then to add semantic interpretations (which are complementary to the computer generated syntax).
- functor categories subject only to the eight ETAC axioms;
- functor
supercategories,
,
with both
and
being 'large' categories
(i.e.,
does not need to be small as in the case of functor categories);
- A topological groupoid
category is an example of a particular supercategory with all invertible morphisms
endowed with both a topological
and an agebraic structure, still subject to all ETAC axioms;
- supergroupoids (also definable as crossed complexes
of groupoids), and supergroups -also definable as crossed modules
of groups- seem to be of great interest to mathematicians currently involved in `categorified' mathematical physics
or physical mathematics.)
- A double groupoid
category is a `simple' example of a higher dimensional supercategory which is useful in higher dimensional homotopy
theory, especially in non-Abelian algebraic topology;
this concept
is subject to all eight ETAC axioms, plus additional axioms related to the definition of the double groupoid (generally non-Abelian) structures;
- An example of `standard' supercategories was recently introduced in mathematical (or more specifically `categorified') physics, on the web's n-Category café's web site
under “Supercategories”. This is a rather `simple' example of supercategories, albeit in a much more restricted sense as it still involves only the standard categorical homo-morphisms, homo-functors, and so on; it begins with a somewhat standard definiton of super-categories, or `super categories' from category theory, but then it becomes more interesting as it is being tailored to supersymmetry
and extensions of `Lie' superalgebras, or superalgebroids, which are sometimes called graded `Lie' algebras
that are thought to be relevant to quantum gravity
([6] and references cited therein). The following is an almost exact quote from the above n-category
cafe' s website posted mainly by Dr. Urs Schreiber:
A supercategory is a diagram of the form:
in Cat-the category of categories and (homo-) functors between categories- such that:
(where the `diamond' symbol should be replaced by the symbol `square',
as in the original Dr. Urs Schreiber's postings.)
This specific instance is that of a supercategory which has only one object- the above quoted superdiagram
of diamonds, an arbitrary abstract category C (subject to all ETAC axioms), and the standard category identity
(homo-) functor; it can be further specialized to the previously introduced concepts of supergroupoids (also definable as crossed complexes of groupoids), and supergroups (also definable as crossed modules of groups), which seem to be of great interest to mathematicians involved in `Categorified' mathematical physics or physical mathematics.) This was then continued with the following interesting example. “What, in this sense, is a braided monoidal supercategory ?”. Dr. Urs Schreiber, suggested the following answer: “like an ordinary braided monoidal catgeory is a 3-category which in lowest degrees looks like the trivial 2-group, a braided monoidal supercategory is a 3-category which in lowest degree looks like the strict 2-group that comes from
the crossed module
”. Urs called this generalization of stabilization of n-categories,
-stabilization. Therefore, the claim would be that `braided monoidal supercategories come from
-stabilized 3-categories, with
the above strict 2-group';
- An organismic set of order
can be regarded either as a category of algebraic
theories representing organismic sets
of different orders
or as a discrete topology organismic supercategory of algebraic theories (or supercategory only with discrete topology, e.g. , a class of objects);
- Any `standard' topos
with a (commutative) Heyting logic algebra as a subobject classifier
is an example of
a commutative (and distributive) supercategory with the additional axioms to ETAC being those that
define the Heyting logic algebra;
- The generalized
(Łukasiewicz- Moisil) toposes are supercatgeories of
non-commutative, algebraic
-valued logic diagrams
that are subject to the axioms of
algebras of
-valued logics;
-categories are supercategories restricted to interpretations of the ETAC axioms;
- An organismic supercategory is defined as a supercategory subject to the ETAC axioms
and also subject to the ETAS axiom of complete self-reproduction involving
-entities (viz. Löfgren, 1968; [1]); its objects are classes representing organisms
in terms of morphism (super) diagrams or equivalently as heterofunctors of organismic classes
with variable topological structure;
Definition 0.1
Organismic Supercategories ([1])
An example of a class of supercategories interpreting such ETAS axioms as those stated above
was previously defined for
organismic structures
with different levels of
complexity
([
1]);
organismic supercategories were thus defined as
superstructure interpretations of ETAS (including ETAC, as appropriate) in terms of triples

, where
C is an arbitrary category (interpretation of ETAC axioms, formulas, etc.),

is a category of complete self-reproducing entities,

, ([
4]) subject to the negation of the axiom of restriction (for elements of sets):
![$ \exists S: (S \neq \oslash) ~ and ~ \forall u: [u \in S) \Rightarrow \exists v: (v \in u)~ and ~( v \in S)]$](img33.png)
, (which is known to be independent from the ordinary logico-mathematical and biological reasoning),
and

is a category of non-atomic expressions, defined as follows.
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W. F. Lawvere: 1966. The Category of Categories as a Foundation for Mathematics. , In Proc. Conf. Categorical Algebra-La Jolla, 1965, Eilenberg, S et al., eds. Springer -Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, pp. 1-20.
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L. Löfgren: 1968. On Axiomatic Explanation of Complete Self-Reproduction. Bull. Math. Biophysics,
30: 317-348.
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R. Brown R, P.J. Higgins, and R. Sivera.: ``Non-Abelian Algebraic Topology'' (2008).
PDF file
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R. Brown, J. F. Glazebrook and I. C. Baianu: A categorical and higher dimensional algebra framework for complex systems and spacetime structures, Axiomathes 17:409-493.
(2007).
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R. Brown and G. H. Mosa: Double algebroids and crossed modules of algebroids, University of Wales-Bangor, Maths Preprint, 1986.
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R. Brown and C.B. Spencer: Double groupoids and crossed modules, Cahiers Top. Géom.Diff. 17 (1976), 343-362.
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I.C. Baianu: Łukasiewicz-Topos Models of Neural Networks, Cell Genome and Interactome Nonlinear Dynamics). CERN Preprint EXT-2004-059. Health Physics and Radiation Effects (June 29, 2004).
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I.C. Baianu, Brown R., J. F. Glazebrook, and Georgescu G.: 2006, Complex Nonlinear Biodynamics in
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I.C. Baianu and M. Marinescu: 1974, A Functorial Construction of (M,R)- Systems. Revue Roumaine de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees 19: 388-391.
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I.C. Baianu: 1977, A Logical Model of Genetic Activities in Łukasiewicz Algebras: The Non-linear Theory. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 39: 249-258.
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I.C. Baianu: 1980, Natural Transformations of Organismic Structures. Bulletin of Mathematical
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I.C. Baianu: 1987a, Computer Models and Automata Theory in Biology and Medicine., in M. Witten (ed.),
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CERN Preprint No. EXT-2004-072.
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