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We introduce a generalization of monads, called relative monads, allowing for underlying functors between different categories. Examples include finite-dimensional vector spaces, untyped and typed lambda-calculus syntax and indexed…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Thosten Altenkirch , James Chapman , Tarmo Uustalu

In this article we extend evaluations of the Kauffman bracket on regular isotopy classes of knots and links to a variety of functors defined on the category of framed tangles. We show that many such functors exist, and that they correspond…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Armstrong

In the first part of this article, we give an analysis of the free monad sequence in non-cocomplete categories, with the needed colimits explicitly parametrized. This enables us to state a more finely grained functoriality principle for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Christian Sattler

In this article we give a construction of a polynomial 2-monad from an operad and describe the algebras of the 2-monads which then arise. This construction is different from the standard construction of a monad from an operad in that the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Mark Weber

We define the monoidal category $(Poly_E,y,\triangleleft)$ of polynomials under composition in any category $E$ with finite limits, including both cartesian and vertical morphisms of polynomials, and generalize to this setting the Dirichlet…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Brandon T. Shapiro , David I. Spivak

We consider the endomorphism operad of a functor, which is roughly the object of natural transformations from (monoidal) powers of that functor to itself. There are many examples from geometry, topology, and algebra where this object has…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole , Joseph Hirsh , Damien Lejay

In the theory of operads we consider functors of generalized symmetric powers defined by sums of coinvariant modules under actions of symmetric groups. One observes classically that the construction of symmetric functors provides an…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-02-25 Benoit Fresse

We apply the notion of relative adjoint functor to generalise closed monoidal categories. We define representations in such categories and give their relation with left actions of monoids. The translation of these representations under lax…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-07 A. Silantyev

Containers represent a wide class of type constructions relevant for functional programming and (co)inductive reasoning. Indexed containers generalize this notion to better fit the scope of dependently typed programming. When interpreting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Michele De Pascalis , Tarmo Uustalu , Niccolò Veltrì

Generalized operads, also called generalized multicategories and $T$-monoids, are defined as monads within a Kleisli bicategory. With or without emphasizing their monoidal nature, generalized operads have been considered by numerous authors…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Dimitri Chikhladze

This paper is the first of two articles which develop the notion of protoperads. In this one, we construct a new monoidal product on the category of reduced S-modules. We study the associated monoids, called protoperads, which are a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-18 Johan Leray

It is shown how double categories provide a direct abstract approach to coloured operads; namely, product-preserving normal lax functors from (Pb C)^op (the opposite of the double category of pullback squares in C) to Cat (the double…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Claudio Pisani

We study a functorial construction from the category of monoids to the category of set-operads and we give some combinatorial examples of applications.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Samuele Giraudo

We study polynomial functors in the incompressible category $\text{Ver}_4^+$, which can be viewed as super polynomial functors in characteristic 2. Concretely, we classify additive, exact and simple polynomial functors, and describe how…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Kevin Coulembier , Serina Hu

We consider three forms of composition of matroids, each of which extends the category of bimatroids to a rigid monoidal category. Many well-known constructions are functorial or defined by morphisms in these categories. Motivating examples…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Kevin Purbhoo

In this paper, we study the list object functor $L : \mathcal{C} \rightarrow \mathcal{C}$ for a general category $\mathcal{C}$ with finite limits and parametrized list objects. We show that $L$ is polynomial as long as $\mathcal{C}$ is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Samuel Desrochers

We consider bivariate polynomials orthogonal on the bicircle with respect to a positive linear functional. The lexicographical and reverse lexicographical orderings are used to order the monomials. Recurrence formulas are derived between…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey S. Geronimo , Hugo Woerdeman

We study the existence and left properness of transferred model structures for "monoid-like" objects in monoidal model categories. These include genuine monoids, but also all kinds of operads as for instance symmetric, cyclic, modular,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Michael Batanin , Clemens Berger

We study lax functors between bicategories as a generalized concept of monads and describe generalized notions and theorems of formal monad theory for lax functors. Our first approach is to use the 2-monad whose lax algebras are lax…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Kengo Hirata

Polynomial functors are sums of covariant representable functors from the category of sets to itself. They have a robust theory with many applications -- from operads and opetopes to combinatorial species. In this paper, we define a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-10 David Jaz Myers , David I. Spivak