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Weihrauch Reducibility as a Lens

September 12, 2024

A short while ago, we had CCA 2024 at Swansea, which I attended mostly because it was local and my supervisor was giving a talk. The first day had a session dedicated to the topic of Weihrauch reducibility, during which it occurred to me that the definition of Weihrauch reducibility looked suspiciously similar to the definition of a dependent lens and that some of the operators on Weihrauch degrees should just be known constructions on polynomials. She agreed, telling me that Weihrauch problems are the polynomials in the category \(\PasmFull\) of partitioned assemblies over the PCA \(\Ktwo\) filtered by \(\Ktworec\).

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