subtheory

noun

subtheory

noun

Etymology From sub- + theory.

1

A theory forming part of a larger theory.

  • We recover the system of Bonchi et al as a subtheory in the prime power dimensional case, but the more general theory does not arise from a distributive law.2016, Ross Duncan, Kevin Dunne, “Interacting Frobenius Algebras are Hopf”, in arXiv:
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subtheoretical

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