Universal property of graph cobordisms
Algebraic Topology
2026-01-08 v1
Abstract
We exhibit the symmetric monoidal -category of graph cobordisms between spaces as a full -subcategory of the -category of presheaves over , where is the symmetric monoidal -category of graph cobordisms between finite sets. We also describe a universal property for : it is, in a suitable sense, the free symmetric monoidal extension of endowed with the factorization homology of the universal -Frobenius algebra for all spaces . As a corollary, we identify the space of universal natural operations on the factorization homologies, in particular the Hochschild homology, of -Frobenius algebras.
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@article{arxiv.2601.03766,
title = {Universal property of graph cobordisms},
author = {Andrea Bianchi and Adela Yiyu Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03766},
year = {2026}
}
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