Abstract

A number of lattice-theoretic fixed point rules are generalised to category theory and applied to the construction of isomorphisms between list structures. 1 Introduction Category theoreticians view a preordered set as a particular sort of category in which there is at most one arrow between any pair of objects. According to this view, several concepts of lattice theory are instances of concepts of category theory as shown in table 1. An alternative viewpoint, advocated by Lambek [9], is that lattice theory is a valuable source of inspiration for novel results in category theory. Indeed, it is our view that for the purposes of advancing programming methodology category theory may profitably be regarded as "coherently constructive lattice theory 1 ". That is to say, arrows between objects of a category may be seen as "witnesses" to a preordering between the objects. Category theory is thus "constructive" because it is a theory about how to construct such witnesses rather than a theor...

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