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Given a finite tensor category $\mathcal{C}$, we prove that a modified trace on the tensor ideal of projective objects can be obtained from a suitable trivialization of the Nakayama functor as right $\mathcal{C}$-module functor. Using a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Christoph Schweigert , Lukas Woike

Categories of partial functions have become increasingly important principally because of their applications in theoretical computer science. In this note we prove that the category of partial bijections between sets as an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-03-06 Emil Schwab

Traced monoidal categories are used to model processes that can feed their outputs back to their own inputs, abstracting iteration. The category of finite dimensional Hilbert spaces with the direct sum tensor is not traced. But…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Aaron David Fairbanks , Peter Selinger

With any even Hecke symmetry R (that is a Hecke type solution of the Yang-Baxter equation) we associate a quasitensor category. We formulate a condition on R implying that the constructed category is rigid and its commutativity isomorphisms…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-07 D. Gurevich , R. Leclercq , P. Saponov

We present an intrinsic and concrete development of the subdivision of small categories, give some simple examples and derive its fundamental properties. As an application, we deduce an alternative way to compare the homotopy categories of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Matias Luis del Hoyo

Categorification is a process of lifting structures to a higher categorical level. The original structure can then be recovered by means of the so-called "decategorification" functor. Algebras are typically categorified to additive…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Anna Beliakova , Zaur Guliyev , Kazuo Habiro , Aaron D. Lauda

In this paper we generalise the notion of linearity (in the sense of Lawvere) to a category C equipped with a compatible sum structure and product structure. In this context, any morphism f from an n-fold sum to an n-fold product has a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Roy Ferguson , Zurab Janelidze

We study two kinds of categorical traces of (monoidal) dg categories, with particular interest in categories of Soergel bimodules. First, we explicitly compute the usual Hochschild homology, or derived vertical trace, of the category of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Eugene Gorsky , Matthew Hogancamp , Paul Wedrich

In this paper we introduce a strict monoidal subcategory of the category of matrices, suitable to address a higher representation theoretic analogue of radicals (non-semisimplicity) in ordinary representation theory. We show the extent to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Paul P Martin , Sarah Almateari , Eric C Rowell

We prove that the coherent Springer sheaf and its parabolic analogues are concentrated in cohomological degree $0$, as predicted by Ben-Zvi-Chen-Helm-Nadler, Zhu, Emerton-Gee-Hellmann, Hansen, and others. More generally, we show that the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Oron Y. Propp

In this paper, we state and prove precise theorems on the classification of the category of (braided) categorical groups and their (braided) monoidal functors, and some applications obtained from the basic studies on monoidal functors…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-04 Nguyen Tien Quang , Nguyen Thu Thuy , Pham Thi Cuc

We define a tracelike transformation to be a natural family of conjugation invariant maps $T_{x,C}: hom_C(x,x) \to hom_C(1,1)$ for all dualisable objects $x$ in any symmetric monoidal infinity-category $C$. This generalises the trace from…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Jan Steinebrunner

In this chapter we survey some particular topics in category theory in a somewhat unconventional manner. Our main focus will be on monoidal categories, mostly symmetric ones, for which we propose a physical interpretation. These are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-12 Bob Coecke , Eric Oliver Paquette

Indexed symmetric monoidal categories are an important refinement of bicategories -- this structure underlies several familiar bicategories, including the homotopy bicategory of parametrized spectra, and its equivariant and fiberwise…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Cary Malkiewich , Kate Ponto

In this paper we provide several results regarding the structure of derived categories of (nested) Hilbert schemes of points. We show that the criteria of Krug-Sosna and Addington for the universal ideal sheaf functor to be fully faithful…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Pieter Belmans , Andreas Krug

Traces in symmetric monoidal categories are well-known and have many applications; for instance, their functoriality directly implies the Lefschetz fixed point theorem. However, for some applications, such as generalizations of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman

We give a new characterization of partial groups as a subcategory of symmetric (simplicial) sets. This subcategory has an explicit reflection, which permits one to compute colimits in the category of partial groups. We also introduce the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Philip Hackney , Justin Lynd

We show that every braiding on a monoidal bicategory induces a monoidal structure on its bicategory of monoids, such that if the former is sylleptic or symmetric then the latter is braided or symmetric, respectively. This extends a classic…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Raffael Stenzel

The purpose of this expository note is to describe duality and trace in a symmetric monoidal category, along with important properties (including naturality and functoriality), and to give as many examples as possible. Among other things,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-25 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman

We formulate a connection between a topological and a geometric category. The former is the idempotent completion of the (horizontal) trace of the affine Hecke category, while the latter is the equivariant derived category of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Eugene Gorsky , Andrei Neguţ