Non-Well-Founded Sets

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Author(s): Peter Aczel
Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information - CSLI Lecture Notes 14
Publisher: CSLI Publications
Year: 1988

Language: English
Pages: 159
Tags: Математика;Математическая логика;Теория множеств;

Title Page......Page 3
Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Introduction......Page 17
Part One - The Anti-Foundation Axiom......Page 21
1. Introducing the Axiom......Page 23
2. The Axiom in More Detail......Page 39
3. A Model of the Axiom......Page 53
Part Two - Variants of the Anti-Foundation Axiom......Page 59
4. Variants Using a Regular Bisimulation......Page 61
5. Another Variant......Page 77
Part Three - On Using the Anti-Foundation Axiom......Page 91
6. Fixed Points of Set Continuous Operators......Page 93
7. The Special Final Coalgebra Theorem......Page 101
8. An Application to Communicating Systems......Page 111
Appendices......Page 121
A. Notes Towards a History......Page 123
B. Background Set Theory......Page 133
References......Page 143
Index of Definitions......Page 149
Index of Named Axioms & Results......Page 151