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The aim of this paper is to present a simplified version of the notion of $\infty$-groupoid developed by Grothendieck in "Pursuing Stacks" and to introduce a definition of $\infty$-categories inspired by Grothendieck's approach.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-14 Georges Maltsiniotis

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 present a new, category theoretic point of view on finite Ramsey theory. Our aims are as follows: -- to define the category theoretic notions needed for the development of finite Ramsey Theory, -- to state, in terms of these notions, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Sławomir Solecki

We give describe several models for $(\infty,n)$-categories, with an emphasis on models given by diagrams of sets and simplicial sets. We look most closely at the cases when $n \leq 2$, then summarize methods of generalizing for all $n$.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Julia E. Bergner

We study, in an abstract axiomatic setting, the notion of sectional category of a morphism. From this, we unify and generalize known results about this invariant in different settings as well as we deduce new applications.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-23 F. Diaz , J. Calcines , P. Garcia , A. Murillo , J. Remedios

The study of complex systems through the lens of category theory consistently proves to be a powerful approach. We propose that cognition deserves the same category-theoretic treatment. We show that by considering a highly-compact cognitive…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-04 Sophie Alyx Taylor , Son Cao Tran , Dan V. Nicolau

We introduce some classes of genuine higher categories in homotopy type theory, defined as well-behaved subcategories of the category of types. We give several examples, and some techniques for showing other things are not examples. While…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-11 James Cranch

This abstract presents (without proofs) some new results on commutativity degree of finite groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-29 Rajat Kanti Nath , Ashish Kumar Das

We specialise a recently introduced notion of generalised dinaturality for functors $T : (\mathcal{C}^\text{op})^p \times \mathcal{C}^q \to \mathcal{D}$ to the case where the domain (resp., codomain) is constant, obtaining notions of ends…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Fosco Loregian , Emily de Oliveira Santos

We introduce the theory of enrichment over an internal monoidal category as a common generalization of both the standard theories of enriched and internal categories. The aim of the paper is to justify and contextualize the new notion by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Enrico Ghiorzi

This note is a contribution written for the second volume of the Encyclopedia of mathematical physics. We give an informal introduction to the notions of an $(\infty,n)$-category and $(\infty,n)$-functor, discussing some of the different…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Viktoriya Ozornova , Martina Rovelli

Invited contribution to the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics. We give an introduction to the homotopical theory of higher categories, focused on motivating the definitions of the basic objects, namely $\infty$-categories and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Rune Haugseng

We revisit the definition of Cartesian differential categories, showing that a slightly more general version is useful for a number of reasons. As one application, we show that these general differential categories are comonadic over…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-22 G. S. H. Cruttwell

We generalize the concepts of locally presentable and accessible categories. Our framework includes such categories as small presheaves over large categories and ind-categories. This generalization is intended for applications in the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Boris Chorny , Jiri Rosicky

We deal with stability theory for ``reasonable'' non-elementary classes without any remanents of compactness (like: above Hanf number or definable by L_{omega_1, omega}).

Logic · Mathematics 2007-08-15 Saharon Shelah

There are different categorizations of the definition of a {\it ring} such as {\it Ann-category} (see N. T. Quang [6]), {\it ring category} (see M. Kapranov and V.Voevodsky [2]),... The main result of this paper is to prove that every axiom…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Nguyen Tien Quang , Nguyen Thu Thuy , Che Thi Kim Phung

We study a metric-like structure on categories, showing that the concept of the limit of a sequence in a metric space and the concept of the colimit of a sequence in a category have a common generalization. The main concept is a norm on a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Wiesław Kubiś

Stefanich generalized the notion of (locally) presentable $(\infty, 1)$-category to the notion of presentable $(\infty, n)$-category. We give a new description based on the new notion of $\kappa$-compactly generated $(\infty, n)$-category,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Ko Aoki

We propose a new line of attack to create a finite quantum theory which includes general relativity and (perhaps) the standard model in its low energy limit. The theory would emerge from the categorical approach. A structure is observed on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Louis Crane

We classify the matrices M which correspond to finite categories

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Samer Allouch