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This article offers an intuitive introduction to monoidal categories through the lens of painting, presenting abstract mathematical concepts with visual and tactile analogies. Aimed at curious undergraduates and non-specialists, it seeks to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Khyathi Komalan

This paper studies the configuration space of all possible positions of a linkage in R^n. For example, it shows that for every compact algebraic set, there is a linkage whose configuration space is analytically isomorphic to a finite number…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Henry C. King

There is a free construction from multicategories to permutative categories, left adjoint to the endomorphism multicategory construction. The main result shows that these functors induce an equivalence of homotopy theories. This result…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Niles Johnson , Donald Yau

The sequence space of all real-valued sequences, denoted $Seq(\mathbb{R})$, is typically investigated through the lens of infinite-dimensional vector spaces, utilizing Banach space norms or Schauder bases. This work proposes a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Mohsen Soltanifar

In our earlier papers we constructed examples of 2-dimensional nonaspherical simply-connected cell-like Peano continua, called {\sl Snake space}. In the sequel we introduced the functor $SC(-,-)$ defined on the category of all spaces with…

General Topology · Mathematics 2011-08-08 Katsuya Eda , Umed H. Karimov , Dušan Repovš

This paper continues investigations in "synthetic homotopy theory": the use of homotopy type theory to give machine-checked proofs of constructions from homotopy theory We present a mechanized proof of the Blakers-Massey connectivity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Kuen-Bang Hou , Eric Finster , Dan Licata , Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine

We show that the category of numerically generated pointed spaces is complete, cocomplete, and monoidally closed with respect to the smash product, and then utilize these features to establish a simple but flexible method for constructing…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-10-19 K. Shimakawa , K. Yoshida , T. Haraguchi

This paper deals with links and braids up to link-homotopy, studied from the viewpoint of Habiro's clasper calculus. More precisely, we use clasper homotopy calculus in two main directions. First, we define and compute a faithful linear…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Emmanuel Graff

Linkages are mechanical devices constructed from rigid bars and freely rotating joints studied both for their utility in engineering and as mathematical idealizations in a number of physical systems. Recently, there has been a resurgence of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-23 M. Berry , David Limberg , M. E. Lee-Trimble , Ryan Hayward , C. D. Santangelo

We study the construction of tensor products of representations up to homotopy, which are the A-infinity version of ordinary representations. We provide formulas for the construction of tensor products of representations up to homotopy and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-09-30 Camilo Arias Abad , Marius Crainic , Benoit Dherin

We investigate the implications of different forms of multi-group connectivity. Four multi-group connectivity modalities are considered: co-memberships, edge bundles, bridges, and liaison hierarchies. We propose generative models to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shadi Mohagheghi , Pushkarini Agharkar , Noah E. Friedkin , Francesco Bullo

We detail a construction of a symmetric monoidal structure, called the reduced tensor product on the 2-category of braided tensor categories $\mathbf{BTC}(\mathcal{A})$ containing a fixed symmetric fusion subcategory $\mathcal{A}$. The…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Thomas A. Wasserman

The tensor product of props was defined by Hackney and Robertson as an extension of the Boardman-Vogt product of operads to more general monoidal theories. Theories that factor as tensor products include the theory of commutative monoids…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Amar Hadzihasanovic

We develop a notion of iterated monoidal category and show that this notion corresponds in a precise way to the notion of iterated loop space. Specifically the group completion of the nerve of such a category is an iterated loop space and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Balteanu , Z. Fiedorowicz , R. Schwaenzl , R. Vogt

Let $\mathcal{S}$ be a small category admitting binary products. We show that the whole theory of monoidal $\mathcal{S}$-fibered categories, which is customarily formulated in terms of the usual internal tensor product, can be rephrased…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Luca Terenzi

We prove that the space $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ of framed infinite volume hyperbolic $3$-manifolds is connected but not path connected. Two proofs of connectivity of this space, which is equipped with the geometric topology, are given, each…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Matthew Zevenbergen

This paper introduces the concept of distorted monoidal categories, a generalization of monoidal and braided monoidal categories that supports non-reversible and direction-sensitive tensor structures. Unlike the classical setting, where the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Joaquim Reizi Higuchi

We introduce the classes of holomorphic $p$-contact manifolds and holomorphic $s$-symplectic manifolds that generalise the classical holomorphic contact and holomorphic symplectic structures. After observing their basic properties and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Hisashi Kasuya , Dan Popovici , Luis Ugarte

The curse of dimensionality associated with the Hilbert space of spin systems provides a significant obstruction to the study of condensed matter systems. Tensor networks have proven an important tool in attempting to overcome this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Jacob C. Bridgeman , Christopher T. Chubb

This note initiates an investigation of packing links into a region of Euclidean space to achieve a maximal density subject to geometric constraints. The upper bounds obtained apply only to the class of homotopically essential links and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Michael H. Freedman