Parameterizations and Fixed-Point Operators on Control Categories

The #-calculus features both variables and names, together with their binding mechanisms. This means that constructions on open terms are necessarily parameterized in two di#erent ways for both variables and names. Semantically, such a construction must be modeled by a bi-parameterized family of operators. In this paper, we study these bi-parameterized operators on Selinger's categorical models of the #- calculus called control categories. The overall development is analogous to that of Lambek's functional completeness of cartesian closed categories via polynomial categories. As a particular and important case, we study parameterizations of uniform fixed-point operators on control categories, and show bijective correspondences between parameterized fixed-point operators and non-parameterized ones under uniformity conditions