Functorial concepts of complexity for finite automata

F. William Lawvere

Some unsolved problems about the classifying topos for Boolean algebras, as well as about the axiomatic arithmetic of finite combinatorial toposes, are closely connected with some simple distinctions between finite automata.

Keywords: Automata, measurable cardinals, Aufhebung, finite topos, axiomatic arithmetic

2000 MSC: 05C35, 11B39, 11U10, 18B20, 18B25

Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 13, 2004, No. 10, pp 164-168.

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