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One important class of tools in the study of the connections between algebraic and topological structures are the "Banach-Stone type theorems", which describe algebraic isomorphisms of algebras (or groups, lattices, etc.) of functions in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Luiz Gustavo Cordeiro

The basic notion of how topoi can be utilized in physics is presented here. Topos and category theory serve as valuable tools which extend our ordinary set-theoretical conceptions, can further the study of quantum logic and give rise to new…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-18 Marios Tsatsos

The language of homotopy type theory has proved to be appropriate as an internal language for various higher toposes, for example with Synthetic Algebraic Geometry for the Zariski topos. In this paper we apply such techniques to the higher…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Felix Cherubini , Thierry Coquand , Freek Geerligs , Hugo Moeneclaey

Using recent results in topos theory, two systems of higher-order logic are shown to be complete with respect to sheaf models over topological spaces---so-called ``topological semantics''. The first is classical higher-order logic, with…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Steve Awodey , Carsten Butz

In recent years, attempts to generalize lattice gauge theories to model topological order have been carried out through the so called $2$-gauge theories. These have opened the door to interesting new models and new topological phases which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 R. Costa de Almeida , J. P. Ibieta-Jimenez , J. Lorca Espiro , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho

A new and extensive formalism is developed for monads and galaxies in non-standard enlargements. It is shown that monads and galaxies can be manipulated using order-preserving and order-reversing set-to-set maps, and that set properties…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Niels Charlier , Hans Vernaeve

A systematic theory of structural limits for finite models has been developed by Nesetril and Ossona de Mendez. It is based on the insight that the collection of finite structures can be embedded, via a map they call the Stone pairing, in a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mai Gehrke , Tomáš Jakl , Luca Reggio

Using Butz and Moerdijk's topological groupoid representation of a topos with enough points, a `syntax-semantics' duality for geometric theories is constructed. The emphasis is on a logical presentation, starting with a description of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-07-01 Henrik Forssell

In the context of categorical topology, more precisely that of T-categories [Hofmann, 2007], we define the notion of T-colimit as a particular colimit in a V-category. A complete and cocomplete V-category in which limits distribute over…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Dirk Hofmann , Isar Stubbe

In this paper we present a novel approach to graph (and structural) limits based on model theory and analysis. The role of Stone and Gelfand dualities is displayed prominently and leads to a general theory, which we believe is naturally…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Jaroslav Nesetril , Patrice Ossona de Mendez

Topos theory has been suggested first by Isham and Butterfield, and then by Isham and Doering, as an alternative mathematical structure within which to formulate physical theories. In particular, it has been used to reformulate standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 Wilson Brenna , Cecilia Flori

This paper is the second in a series whose goal is to develop a fundamentally new way of constructing theories of physics. The motivation comes from a desire to address certain deep issues that arise when contemplating quantum theories of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Doering , C. J. Isham

The notion of support provides an analogue of Stone duality, relating lattices to topological spaces. This note aims to explain in lattice theoretic terms what has been developed in the context of triangulated categories. In particular, the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Henning Krause

The goal of this paper is to summarise the first steps in developing a fundamentally new way of constructing theories of physics. The motivation comes from a desire to address certain deep issues that arise when contemplating quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Doering , Chris Isham

We introduce judgemental theories and their calculi as a general framework to present and study deductive systems. As an exemplification of their expressivity, we approach dependent type theory and natural deduction as special kinds of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Greta Coraglia , Ivan Di Liberti

Localic and realizability toposes are two central classes of toposes in categorical logic, both arising through the Hyland-Johnstone-Pitts tripos-to-topos construction. We investigate their shared geometric features by providing an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Maria Emilia Maietti , Davide Trotta

After reviewing the multiple roles of toposes - as generalized topological spaces, as universal invariants, as categorical analogues of the set-theoretic universe, and as semantic environments for first-order theories - we recall the notion…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Olivia Caramello , Laurent Lafforgue

The classifying topos of a geometric theory is a topos such that geometric morphisms into it correspond to models of that theory. We study classifying toposes for different infinitary logics: first-order, sub-first-order (i.e. geometric…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Mark Kamsma

Techniques from higher categories and higher-dimensional rewriting are becoming increasingly important for understanding the finer, computational properties of higher algebraic theories that arise, among other fields, in quantum…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Amar Hadzihasanovic

A convexity space is a set X with a chosen family of subsets (called convex subsets) that is closed under arbitrary intersections and directed unions. There is a lot of interest in spaces that have both a convexity space and a topological…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Toby Kenney