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Frobenius objects in the category of relations

Category Theory 2024-09-04 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We give a characterization, in terms of simplicial sets, of Frobenius objects in the category of relations. This result generalizes a result of Heunen, Contreras, and Cattaneo showing that special dagger Frobenius objects in the category of relations are in correspondence with groupoids. As an additional example, we construct a Frobenius object in the category of relations whose elements are certain cohomology classes in a compact oriented Riemannian manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1907.00702,
  title  = {Frobenius objects in the category of relations},
  author = {Rajan Amit Mehta and Ruoqi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00702},
  year   = {2024}
}

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v2: minor edits, final version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T10:08:33.094Z