Higher regularity properties of mappings and morphisms
Mathematical Physics
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Category Theory
math.MP
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We propose to extend ``invertibility'' to ``regularity'' for categories in general abstract algebraic manner. Higher regularity conditions and ``semicommutative'' diagrams are introduced. Distinction between commutative and ``semicommutative'' cases is measured by non-zero obstruction proportional to the difference of some self-mappings (obstructors) from the identity. This allows us to generalize the notion of functor and to ``regularize'' braidings and related structures in monoidal categories. A ``noninvertible'' analog of the Yang-Baxter equation is proposed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math-ph/0005033,
title = {Higher regularity properties of mappings and morphisms},
author = {Steven Duplij and Wladyslaw Marcinek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0005033},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, Latex 2e (amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb)