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ACompleteAxiomatisation of Partial
Differentiation
Gordon Plotkin
ACTSeminar,May2020
Cartesian differential categories
Thegoalofthepresentpaperistodevelopanaxioma-
tization which directly characterizes the smooth maps:
in other words, to characterize the coKleisli structure
of differential categories directly. This leads us to the
notion of a Cartesian differential category. This notion
embodies the multi-variable differential calculus which,
being a fundamental tool of modern mathematics, is
well worth studying in its own right.
Blute, Cockett & Seely, Cartesian differential categories, 2009
Left additive cartesian categories
Eachhomsetisacommutativemonoid.
Composition is left additive:
0f = 0 (f + g)h = fh + gh
Amorphismf is additive iff f- (ie right composition with f) is
additive.
Theproduct structure is compatible:
Theprojections
x ←x×y →y
are additive
Tupling preserves additivity:
f : x → y,g : x → z additive
hf,gi : x → y ×z additive
Example: Finite powers of R and smooth maps
Thegradient
∇(f):Rn → Rn
of a smooth map f(x ,:::,xn) of n-arguments is
1
∇(f)(v) = h ∂f (v),:::, ∂f (v)i
∂x ∂x
1 n
Thedifferential
D[f]:Rn ×Rn → Rm
of a smooth map
n m
f :R →R =hf ,:::,f i
1 m
is
T
D[f](v,w) = h∇(f )(v)·w,:::,∇[f ](v)·wi (= J(f)(v)w )
1 n
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