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Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Robin Cockett , Richard Garner

We construct a symmetric monoidal category $LIE^{MC}$ whose objects are shifted L-infinity algebras equipped with a complete descending filtration. Morphisms of this category are "enhanced" infinity morphisms between shifted L-infinity…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Vasily A. Dolgushev , Christopher L. Rogers

We give a self-contained introduction to accessible categories and how they shed light on both model- and set-theoretic questions. We survey for example recent developments on the study of presentability ranks, a notion of cardinality…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Sebastien Vasey

The category $\mathbf{Rel}$ is the category of sets (objects) and relations (morphisms). Equipped with the direct product of sets, $\mathbf{Rel}$ is a monoidal category. Moreover, $\mathbf{Rel}$ is a locally posetal 2-category, since every…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Anna Jenčová , Gejza Jenča

Differential categories provide the categorical foundations for the algebraic approaches to differentiation. They have been successful in formalizing various important concepts related to differentiation, such as, in particular,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay , Chiara Sava

Quantum categories were introduced in [4] as generalizations of both bi(co)algebroids and small categories. We clarify details of that work. In particular, we show explicitly how the monadic definition of a quantum category unpacks to a set…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Dimitri Chikhladze

We develop foundations for oriented category theory, an extension of $(\infty,\infty)$-category theory obtained by systematic usage of the Gray tensor product, in order to study lax phenomena in higher category theory. As categorical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 David Gepner , Hadrian Heine

We continue the program of structural differential geometry that begins with the notion of a tangent category, an axiomatization of structural aspects of the tangent functor on the category of smooth manifolds. In classical geometry, having…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-01 R. F. Blute , G. S. H. Cruttwell , R. B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright

The topic of this paper is a generalization of Tannaka duality to coclosed categories. As an application we prove reconstruction theorems for coalgebras (and bialgebras) in categories of topological vector spaces over a nonarchimedean field…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Anton Lyubinin

Tangent categories provide a categorical axiomatization of the tangent bundle. There are many interesting examples and applications of tangent categories in a variety of areas such as differential geometry, algebraic geometry, algebra, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Sacha Ikonicoff , Marcello Lanfranchi , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

In category theory circles it is well-known that the Schreier theory of group extensions can be understood in terms of the Grothendieck construction on indexed categories. However, it is seldom discussed how this relates to extensions of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Graham Manuell

We introduce a framework for universal algebra in categories of relational structures given by finitary relational signatures and finitary or infinitary Horn theories, with the arity $\lambda$ of a Horn theory understood as a strict upper…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Chase Ford , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder

This paper is the first in a series of two papers, $\mathbf{Z}$-Categories I and $\mathbf{Z}$-Categories II, which develop the notion of $\mathbf{Z}$-category, the natural bi-infinite analog to strict $\omega$-categories, and show that the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Paul Lessard

We show that a number of results on abstract elementary classes (AECs) hold in accessible categories with concrete directed colimits. In particular, we prove a generalization of a recent result of Boney on tameness under a large cardinal…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Michael Lieberman , Jirí Rosický

Many kinds of categorical structure require the existence of finite limits, of colimits of some specified type, and of "exactness" conditions between the finite limits and the specified colimits. Some examples are the notions of regular, or…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-20 Richard Garner , Stephen Lack

We prove that the projective model structure on the category of unbounded cochain complexes extends naturally to the category of contractions. The proof is completely elementary and we do not assume familiarity with model categories.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-10 Marco Manetti , Chiara Spagnoli

We generalize the small object argument in order to allow for its application to proper classes of maps (as opposed to sets of maps in Quillen's small object argument). The necessity of such a generalization arose with appearance of several…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Boris Chorny

It is proved that MacLane's coherence results for monoidal and symmetric monoidal categories can be extended to some other categories with multiplication; namely, to relevant, affine and cartesian categories. All results are formulated in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Z. Petric

Category theory has become central to certain aspects of theoretical physics. Bain [Synthese, 190:1621--1635 (2013)] has recently argued that this has significance for ontic structural realism. We argue against this claim. In so doing, we…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Raymond Lal , Nicholas J. Teh

We prove that the category of models of any relational Horn theory satisfying a mild syntactic condition is infinitely extensive. Central examples of such categories include the categories of preordered sets and partially ordered sets, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Jason Parker