Canonical differential calculi via functorial geometrization
Abstract
Given a category , we establish sufficient conditions on a faithful isofibration valued in the category of monoids internal to a monoidal additive category such that admits a canonical functor to the category of first order differential calculi in . Generalizing the procedure of extending a first order differential calculus to its maximal prolongation to this setting, we obtain a canonical functor from to the category of differential calculi in . This yields a simultaneous generalization of the de Rham complex on -rings, the K\"{a}hler differentials on commutative algebras, and the universal differential calculus on associative algebras. As a consequence, such categories admit natural analogues of the notions of smooth map and diffeomorphism, as well as a functorial de Rham theory. Moreover, whenever two such faithful isofibrations to factor suitably, their corresponding de Rham functors are related via a comparison map. Developing this theory requires first extending the noncommutative geometry formalism of differential calculi from associative algebras to the setting of monoids internal to monoidal additive categories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.20742,
title = {Canonical differential calculi via functorial geometrization},
author = {Keegan J. Flood and Gabriele Lobbia and Giacomo Tendas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.20742},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
52 pages. Included new example. Fixed minor typographic issues