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We continue our study of semi-strict tricategories in which the only weakness is in vertical composition. We assemble the doubly-degenerate such tricategories into a 2-category, defining weak functors and transformations. We exhibit a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Eugenia Cheng , Alexander S. Corner

An operad (this paper deals with non-symmetric operads)may be conceived as a partial algebra with a family of insertion operations, Gerstenhaber's circle-i products, which satisfy two kinds of associativity, one of them involving…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Kosta DOSEN , Zoran Petric

Weakly globular double categories are a model of weak $2$-categories based on the notion of weak globularity, and they are known to be suitably equivalent to Tamsamani $2$-categories. Fair $2$-categories, introduced by J. Kock, model weak…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Simona Paoli

A weak entwining structure in a 2-category K consists of a monad t and a comonad c, together with a 2-cell relating both structures in a way that generalizes a mixed distributive law.A weak entwining structure can be characterized as a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Gabriella Böhm

We show that the category of N-complexes has a Str\om model structure, meaning the weak equivalences are the chain homotopy equivalences. This generalizes the analogous result for the category of chain complexes (N = 2). The trivial objects…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2012-07-31 James Gillespie

A multicategory is what remains of a monoidal category when monoidal product is not available. A weak multicategory means that hom-sets are in fact categories, and in place of usual equations, there are natural isomorphisms, which have to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Volodymyr Lyubashenko

We present a conservative extension ICaTT of the dependent type theory CaTT for weak $\omega$-categories with a type witnessing coinductive invertibility of cells. This extension allows for a concise description of the "walking equivalence"…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Thibaut Benjamin , Camil Champin , Ioannis Markakis

A weak mixed distributive law (also called weak entwining structure) in a 2-category consists of a monad and a comonad, together with a 2-cell relating them in a way which generalizes a mixed distributive law due to Beck. We show that a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-27 Gabriella Böhm , Stephen Lack , Ross Street

When one studies the structure (e.g. graded ideals, graded subspaces, radicals, ...) or graded polynomial identities of graded algebras, the grading group itself does not play an important role, but can be replaced by any other group that…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Alexey Gordienko , Ofir Schnabel

We construct a `weak' version EM^w(K) of Lack & Street's 2-category of monads in a 2-category K, by replacing their compatibility constraint of 1-cells with the units of monads by an additional condition on the 2-cells. A relation between…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-27 Gabriella Böhm

We study $\omega$-weak equivalences between weak $\omega$-categories in the sense of Batanin-Leinster. Our $\omega$-weak equivalences are strict $\omega$-functors satisfying essential surjectivity in every dimension, and when restricted to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Soichiro Fujii , Keisuke Hoshino , Yuki Maehara

A monoid $S$ is said to be weakly right coherent if every finitely generated right ideal of $S$ is finitely presented as a right $S$-act. It is known that $S$ is weakly right coherent if and only if it satisfies the following conditions:…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Levent Michael Dasar , Victoria Gould , Craig Miller

Classically, there are two model category structures on coalgebras in the category of chain complexes over a field. In one, the weak equivalences are maps which induce an isomorphism on homology. In the other, the weak equivalences are maps…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole , Joseph Hirsh

A monoid $S$ is right coherent if every finitely generated subact of every finitely presented right $S$-act itself has a finite presentation; it is weakly right coherent if every finitely generated right ideal of $S$ has a finite…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Matthew Brookes , Victoria Gould , Nik Ruskuc

We give an explicit handy (and cocycle-free) description of the groupoid of weak maps between two crossed-modules in terms of certain digrams of groups which we we call a {\em butterflies}. We define composition of butterflies and this way…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-13 Behrang Noohi

For a semisimple multiring category with left duals, we prove that the unit object is simple if and only if the tensor functors by any non-zero algebra are separable (resp. faithful, resp. Maschke, resp. dual Maschke, resp. conservative).…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Zhenbang Zuo

Let A be a finite dimensional unital associative algebra over a field K, which is also equipped with a coassociative counital coalgebra structure (\Delta,\eps). A is called a Weak Bialgebra if the coproduct \Delta is multiplicative. We do…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Florian Nill

We study semi-strict tricategories in which the only weakness is in vertical composition. We construct these as categories enriched in the category of bicategories with strict functors, with respect to the cartesian monoidal structure. As…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Eugenia Cheng , Alexander S. Corner

Weak (Hopf) bialgebras are described as (Hopf) bimonoids in appropriate duoidal (also known as 2-monoidal) categories. This interpretation is used to define a category wba of weak bialgebras over a given field. As an application, the "free…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Gabriella Böhm , José Gómez-Torrecillas , Esperanza López-Centella

Let $A$ be a unital separable \CA and $B=C\otimes {\cal K},$ where $C$ is a unital \CA. Let $\tau: A\to M(B)/B$ be a weakly unital full essential extensions of $A$ by $B.$ We show that there is a bijection between a quotient group of…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huaxin Lin