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Our aim is to give a fairly complete account on the construction of compatible model structures on exact categories and symmetric monoidal exact categories, in some cases generalizing previously known results. We describe the close…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Jan Stovicek

We introduce homotopical methods based on rewriting on higher-dimensional categories to prove coherence results in categories with an algebraic structure. We express the coherence problem for (symmetric) monoidal categories as an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Yves Guiraud , Philippe Malbos

We show that the categories of directed and undirected reflexive graphs carry exactly two (up to isomorphism) biclosed monoidal structures.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Adrien Grenier , Chris Kapulkin

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

A bicategory approach to differential cohomology is presented. Based on the axioms of Bunke-Schick, a symmetric monoidal groupoid is associated to differential refinements of cohomology theories. It is proven that such differential…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Markus Upmeier

We give a conceptual treatment of the notion of joints, marginals, and independence in the setting of categorical probability. This is achieved by endowing the usual probability monads (like the Giry monad) with a monoidal and an opmonoidal…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Tobias Fritz , Paolo Perrone

In arXiv:2209.06121, they defined a general plus construction for monoidal categories and showed that if the monoidal category is a unique factorization category, then the plus construction yields a Feynman category. In this paper, we will…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Michael Monaco

The Catalan simplicial set $\mathbb{C}$ is known to classify skew-monoidal categories in the sense that a map from $\mathbb{C}$ to a suitably defined nerve of $\mathrm{Cat}$ is precisely a skew-monoidal category \cite{Catalan1}. We extend…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Mitchell Buckley

This note informally describes a way to build certain cubical n-categories by iterating a process of taking models of certain finite limits theories. We base this discussion on a construction of "double bicategories" as bicategories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-18 Jeffrey C. Morton

Skew monoidal categories are monoidal categories with non-invertible `coherence' morphisms. As shown in a previous paper bialgebroids over a ring R can be characterized as the closed skew monoidal structures on the category Mod R in which…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-30 K. Szlachanyi

We construct in a unifying way skew-multicategories and multicategories of double and Gray-categories that we call Gray (skew) multicategories. We study their different versions depending on the types of functors and higher transforms. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Bojana Femić

The study of categories that abstract the structural properties of relations has been extensively developed over the years, resulting in a rich and diverse body of work. This paper strives to provide a modern presentation of these…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Cipriano Junior Cioffo , Fabio Gadducci , Davide Trotta

We construct free monoids in a monoidal category with finite limits and countable colimits, in which tensoring on either side preserves reflexive coequalizers and colimits of countable chains.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Stephen Lack

Using Dugger's construction of universal model categories, we produce replacements for simplicial and combinatorial symmetric monoidal model categories with better operadic properties. Namely, these replacements admit a model structure on…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Haldun Özgür Bayındır , Boris Chorny

The Day Reflection Theorem gives conditions under which a reflective subcategory of a closed monoidal category can be equipped with a closed monoidal structure in such a way that the reflection adjunction becomes a monoidal adjunction. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Stephen Lack , Ross Street

Poly-bicategories generalise planar polycategories in the same way as bicategories generalise monoidal categories. In a poly-bicategory, the existence of enough 2-cells satisfying certain universal properties (representability) induces…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Amar Hadzihasanovic

We discuss globalization for geometric partial comodules in a monoidal category with pushouts and we provide a concrete procedure to construct it, whenever it exists. The mild assumptions required by our approach make it possible to apply…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Paolo Saracco , Joost Vercruysse

In this paper, we address the construction of homotopy bicategories of $(\infty,2)$-categories, which we take as being modeled by 2-fold Segal spaces. Our main result is the concrete construction of a functor $h_2$ from the category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Jack Romö

A characterization of simplicial objects in categories with finite products obtained by the reduced bar construction is given. The condition that characterizes such simplicial objects is a strictification of Segal's condition guaranteeing…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Zoran Petric

We present the notion of "cyclic double multicategory", as a structure in which to organise multivariable adjunctions and mates. The classic example of a 2-variable adjunction is the hom/tensor/cotensor trio of functors; we generalise this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-24 Eugenia Cheng , Nick Gurski , Emily Riehl