Breaking the atom with Samson

Authors
Publication date 2013
Host editors
  • B. Coecke
  • L. Ong
  • P. Panangaden
Book title Computation, logic, games, and quantum foundations: the many facets of Samson Abramsky
Book subtitle essays dedicated to Samson Abramsky on the occasion of his 60th birthday
ISBN
  • 9783642381638
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783642381645
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Pages (from-to) 327-335
Publisher Heidelberg: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract The dependence atom =(x,y) was introduced in [11]. Here x and y are finite sets of attributes (or variables) and the intuitive meaning of =(x,y) is that the attributes x completely (functionally) determine the attributes y. One may wonder, whether the dependence atom is truly an atom or whether it has further constituents. My very pleasant co-operation with Samson Abramsky led to the breaking of this atom, with hitherto unforeseen consequences. Here is the story.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38164-5_22
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