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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) e(n)e^{(n)} 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.

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@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}
}

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11 pages, Latex 2e (amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb)