The relationship between self-referential types and isomorphism reveals how recursive structures can be interpreted through structural equivalence in type theory, enhancing our understanding of data modeling.
Self-referential types, like linked lists or trees, are defined in terms of themselves, where their recursive nature exemplifies how data structures can reference their own types.
Types A and B are considered isomorphic if there exist bijective functions mapping between them, ensuring that all structural information is preserved during transformation.
Recursive types such as List[A] can be expressed as fixed points of type constructors and demonstrated to be isomorphic to their unfolding, reflecting a deep connection in type theory.
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