A Compositional Framework for Passive Linear Networks

Here’s a new paper on network theory:

• John Baez and Brendan Fong, A compositional framework for passive linear networks.

While my paper with Jason Erbele, Categories in control, studies signal flow diagrams, this one focuses on circuit diagrams. The two are different, but closely related.

I’ll talk about their relation at the Turin workshop in May. For now, let me just talk about this paper with Brendan. There’s a lot in here, but let me just try to explain the main result. It’s all about ‘...