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The purpose of this article is threefold: Firstly, we propose some enhancements to the existing definition of 6-functor formalisms. Secondly, we systematically study the category of kernels, which is a certain 2-category attached to every…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Claudius Heyer , Lucas Mann

This article develops the theory of fusion categories acting on algebras. We will demonstrate that weak Hopf algebra actions on algebras correspond to specific actions of fusion categories. As an application of this theory, we introduce a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alexander Betz

A subunit in a monoidal category is a subobject of the monoidal unit for which a canonical morphism is invertible. They correspond to open subsets of a base topological space in categories such as those of sheaves or Hilbert modules. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Pau Enrique Moliner , Chris Heunen , Sean Tull

We introduce pseudoalgebras for relative pseudomonads and develop their theory. For each relative pseudomonad $T$, we construct a free--forgetful relative pseudoadjunction that exhibits the bicategory of $T$-pseudoalgebras as terminal among…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Nathanael Arkor , Philip Saville , Andrew Slattery

An $\infty$-cosmos is a setting in which to develop the formal category theory of $(\infty,1)$-categories. In this paper, we explore a few atypical examples of $\infty$-cosmoi whose objects are 2-categories or bicategories rather than…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Emily Riehl , Mira Wattal

The aim of this paper is to study categorified algebraic structures and their pseudo- and lax homomorphisms using the framework of Lawvere $2$-theories, and more generally, (enhanced) $2$-dimensional sketches. The key notion we focus on is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Tomáš Perutka

A finite-dimensional unital and associative algebra over $\mathbb{R}$, or what we shall call simply "an algebra" in this paper for short, generalities the construction by which we derive the complex numbers by "adjoining an element $i$" to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Nathan BeDell

Weak morphisms of non-abelian complexes of length 2, or crossed modules, are morphisms of the associated 2-group stacks, or gr-stacks. We present a full description of the weak morphisms in terms of diagrams we call butterflies. We give a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-07-10 Ettore Aldrovandi , Behrang Noohi

In general, universal (co)measuring (co)monoids and universal (co)acting bi/Hopf monoids, which prove to be a useful tool in the classification of quantum symmetries, do not always exist. In order to ensure their existence, the support of a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Ana Agore , Alexey Gordienko , Joost Vercruysse

This paper is concerned with developing a 2-dimensional analogue of the notion of an ordinary discrete fibration. A definition is proposed, and it is shown that such discrete 2-fibrations correspond via a 2-equivalence to certain…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Michael Lambert

The notion of the center of an algebra over a field k has a far reaching generalization to algebras in monoidal categories. The center then lives in the monoidal center of the original category. This generalization plays an important role…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Alexei Davydov , Liang Kong , Ingo Runkel

We develop a 2-dimensional version of accessibility and presentability compatible with the formalism of flat pseudofunctors. First we give prerequisites on the different notions of 2-dimensional colimits, filteredness and cofinality; in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Ivan Di Liberti , Axel Osmond

We construct recursion categories from categories of coalgebras. Let $F$ be a nontrivial endofunctor on the category of sets that weakly preserves pullbacks and such that the category $\textbf{Set}_F$ of $F$-coalgebras is complete. The…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Florian Lengyel

Given a horizontal monoid M in a duoidal category F, we examine the relationship between bimonoid structures on M and monoidal structures on the category of right M-modules which lift the vertical monoidal structure of F. We obtain our…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-28 Thomas Booker , Ross Street

The theory of 2-monads entails that, for a strict monoidal category C, there is a strict monoidal category L(C) such that strict monoidal functors from L(C) are precisely the lax monoidal functors from C. We give an elementary,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Alexis Langlois-Rémillard , Mateusz Stroiński

We develop a general theory of (extended) inner autoequivalences of objects of any 2-category, generalizing the theory of isotropy groups to the 2-categorical setting. We show how dense subcategories let one compute isotropy in the presence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Pieter Hofstra , Martti Karvonen

Categories, n-categories, double categories, and multicategories (among others) all have similar definitions as collections of cells with composition operations. We give an explicit description of the information required to define any…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Brandon Shapiro

We introduce a method to lift monads on the base category of a fibration to its total category. This method, which we call codensity lifting, is applicable to various fibrations which were not supported by its precursor, categorical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Shin-ya Katsumata , Tetsuya Sato , Tarmo Uustalu

We show that either of the two reasonable choices for the category of compact quantum groups is nice enough to allow for a plethora of universal constructions, all obtained "by abstract nonsense" via the adjoint functor theorem. This…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Alexandru Chirvasitu

We define weak units in a semi-monoidal 2-category $\CC$ as cancellable pseudo-idempotents: they are pairs $(I,\alpha)$ where $I$ is an object such that tensoring with $I$ from either side constitutes a biequivalence of $\CC$, and $\alpha:…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-15 André Joyal , Joachim Kock