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We study elementary theories of well-pointed toposes and pretoposes, regarded as category-theoretic or "structural" set theories in the spirit of Lawvere's "Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets". We consider weak intuitionistic and…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Michael Shulman

We survey some basic mathematical structures, which arguably are more primitive than the structures taught at school. These structures are orders, with or without composition, and (symmetric) monoidal categories. We list several `real life'…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Bob Coecke

In mathematical applications, category theory remains a contentious issue, with enthusiastic fans and a skeptical majority. In a muted form this split applies to the authors of this note. When we learned that the only mathematically sound…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich

Topological statistical theory provides the foundation for a modern mathematical reformulation of classical statistical theory: Structural Statistics emphasizes the structural assumptions that accompany distribution families and the set of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Patrick Michl

Written to be contributed as the "mathematical modeling" chapter of a book, edited by Elaine Landry, to be titled "Categories for the Working Philosopher". In this chapter, category theory is presented as a mathematical modeling framework…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 David I. Spivak

It has become obvious in the recent development that the structural Ramsey property is a categorical property: it depends not only on the choice of objects, but also on the choice of morphisms involved. In this paper we explicitely put the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Dragan Masulovic , Lynn Scow

These notes were originally developed as lecture notes for a category theory course. They should be well-suited to anyone that wants to learn category theory from scratch and has a scientific mind. There is no need to know advanced…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Paolo Perrone

Nonrigid mathematical structures may no longer form usual Eilenberg - Mac Lane categories, but more general ones, as illustrated by pseudo-topologies. A rather general concept of pseudo-topology was used in constructing differential…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Elemer E Rosinger

We define a monoidal semantics for algebraic theories. The basis for the definition is provided by the analysis of the structural rules in the term calculus of algebraic languages. Models are described both explicitly, in a form that…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Luca Mauri

Classification and invariants, with respect to basis changes, of finite dimensional algebras are considered. An invariant open, dense (in the Zariscki topology) subset of the space of structural constants is defined. The algebras with…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Ural Bekbaev

The monumental treatise "\'El\'ements de math\'ematique" of N. Bourbaki is based on the notion of structure and on the theory of sets. On the other hand, the theory of categories is based on the notions of morphism and functor. An…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Henri Bourlès

The use of geometric invariants has recently played an important role in the solution of classification problems in non-commutative ring theory. We construct geometric invariants of non-commutative projectivizations, a significant class of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2009-03-03 A. Nyman

In this paper, we analyze and compare three of the many algebraic structures that have been used for modeling dependent type theories: categories with families, split type-categories, and representable maps of presheaves. We study these in…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Benedikt Ahrens , Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine , Vladimir Voevodsky

The generality and pervasiness of category theory in modern mathematics makes it a frequent and useful target of formalization. It is however quite challenging to formalize, for a variety of reasons. Agda currently (i.e. in 2020) does not…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Jason Z. S. Hu , Jacques Carette

Category theory provides a powerful tool to organize mathematics. A sample of this descriptive power is given by the categorical analysis of the practice of "classes as shorthands" in ZF set theory. In this case category theory provides a…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-12-14 Samuele Maschio

We study and relate categories of modules, comodules and contramodules over a representation of a small category taking values in (co)algebras, in a manner similar to modules over a ringed space. As a result, we obtain a categorical…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Mamta Balodi , Abhishek Banerjee , Samarpita Ray

Our starting point is a particular `canvas' aimed to `draw' theories of physics, which has symmetric monoidal categories as its mathematical backbone. In this paper we consider the conceptual foundations for this canvas, and how these can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 Bob Coecke

We construct an invariant of t-structures on the derived category of a Noetherian ring. This invariant is complete when restricting to the category of quasi-coherent complexes, and also gives a classification of nullity classes with the…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Don Stanley

In this paper, we use a categorical and functorial set up to model the syntax and inference of logics with algebraic signature, extending previous works on algebraisation of logics. The main feature of this work is that structurality, or…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Lingyuan Ye

Coherence theorems for covariant structures carried by a category have traditionally relied on the underlying term rewriting system of the structure being terminating and confluent. While this holds in a variety of cases, it is not a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-31 Jonathan A. Cohen