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We study a generalization of the Svarc genus of a fiber map. For an arbitrary collection E of spaces and a map f:X-->Y, we define a numerical invariant, the E-sectional category of f, in terms of open covers of Y. We obtain several basic…

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We introduce a coarse analog of the classical Lusternik-Schnirelmann category which we denote by $\text{c-cat}$, defined for metric spaces in the coarse homotopy category. This provides a new tool for studying large-scale topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Aditya De Saha

A constant term sequence is a sequence of rational numbers whose $n$-th term is the constant term of $P^n(\boldsymbol{x}) Q(\boldsymbol{x})$, where $P(\boldsymbol{x})$ and $Q(\boldsymbol{x})$ are multivariate Laurent polynomials. While the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alin Bostan , Armin Straub , Sergey Yurkevich

Let $(\mathcal{K} ,\subseteq )$ be a universal class with $LS(\mathcal{K})=\lambda$ categorical in regular $\kappa >\lambda^+$ with arbitrarily large models, and let $\mathcal{K}^*$ be the class of all $\mathcal{A}\in\mathcal{K}_{>\lambda}$…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Tapani Hyttinen , Kaisa Kangas

Algebra objects in $\infty$-categories of spans admit a description in terms of $2$-Segal objects. We introduce a notion of span between $2$-Segal objects and extend this correspondence to an equivalence of $\infty$-categories.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Jonte Gödicke

Let $C_\bullet$ be a simplicial object in the category $Cat$ of small categories. For a field $k$, taking the Grothendieck groups of isomorphism classes of $kC_n$-modules gives rise to a cochain complex, whose cohomology, which we refer to…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Markus Klemetti , Ran Levi , Henri Riihimaki , Daniel Solch

The categoricity spectrum of a class of structures is the collection of cardinals in which the class has a single model up to isomorphism. Assuming that cardinal exponentiation is injective (a weakening of the generalized continuum…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Sebastien Vasey

In this note we give a characterization of the sectional category of a map between rational spaces in terms of its Koszul-Quillen model.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Urtzi Buijs , José Carrasquel

We present an intrinsic and concrete development of the subdivision of small categories, give some simple examples and derive its fundamental properties. As an application, we deduce an alternative way to compare the homotopy categories of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Matias Luis del Hoyo

We construct a topological space to study contextuality in quantum mechanics. The resulting space is a classifying space in the sense of algebraic topology. Cohomological invariants of our space correspond to physical quantities relevant to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Cihan Okay , Daniel Sheinbaum

We describe a ring whose category of Cohen-Macaulay modules provides an additive categorification of the cluster algebra structure on the homogeneous coordinate ring of the Grassmannian of k-planes in n-space. More precisely, there is a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Bernt Tore Jensen , Alastair King , Xiuping Su

We present the first definition of strictly associative and unital $\infty$-category. Our proposal takes the form of a type theory whose terms describe the operations of such structures, and whose definitional equality relation enforces…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Eric Finster , Alex Rice , Jamie Vicary

The Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of a space was introduced to obtain a lower bound on the number of critical points of a $C^1$-function on a given manifold. Related to Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and motivated by topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Stephan Mescher , Maximilian Stegemeyer

Sequences of numbers (either natural integers, or integers or rational) of level $k \in \mathbb{N}$ have been defined in \cite{Fra05,Fra-Sen06} as the sequences which can be computed by deterministic pushdown automata of level $k$. This…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-12 G. Sénizergues

We define a categorical framework in which we build a systematic construction that provides generic invariants for C*-algebras. The benefit is significant as we show that any invariant arising this way automatically enjoys nice properties…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Laurent Cantier

We develop a categorical compositional distributional semantics for Lambek Calculus with a Relevant Modality !L*, which has a limited edition of the contraction and permutation rules. The categorical part of the semantics is a monoidal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Lachlan McPheat , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Hadi Wazni , Gijs Wijnholds

Let $k$ be a field with separable closure $\bar{k}\supset k$, and let $X$ be a qcqs $k$-scheme. We use the theory of profinite Galois categories developed by Barwick-Glasman-Haine to provide a quick conceptual proof that the sequences…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Peter J. Haine , Tim Holzschuh , Sebastian Wolf

Condensed mathematics, developed by Clausen and Scholze over the last few years, proposes a generalization of topology with better categorical properties. It replaces the concept of a topological space by that of a condensed set, which can…

Starting categorically, we give simple and precise models of equivariant classifying spaces. We need these models for work in progress in equivariant infinite loop space theory and equivariant algebraic K-theory, but the models are of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 B. J. Guillou , J. P. May , M. Merling

Let X be a smooth complex algebraic variety. Morgan [Mor78] showed that the rational homotopy type of X is a formal consequence of the differential graded algebra defined by the first term of its weight spectral sequence. In the present…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-26 J. Cirici , F. Guillén