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We give an elementary construction of the exact completion of a weakly lex category for categories enriched in the cartesian closed category $\mathsf{Pos}$ of partially ordered sets. Paralleling the ordinary case, we characterize categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vasileios Aravantinos-Sotiropoulos

This is a report on aspects of the theory and use of monoidal categories. The first section introduces the main concepts through the example of the category of vector spaces. String notation is explained and shown to lead naturally to a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Ross Street

This paper extends the theory of universal measuring comonoids to modules and comodules in braided monoidal categories. We generalise the universal measuring comodule Q(M,N), originally introduced for modules over k-algebras when k is a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Martin Hyland , Ignacio Lopez Franco , Christina Vasilakopoulou

This paper proves three different coherence theorems for symmetric monoidal bicategories. First, we show that in a free symmetric monoidal bicategory every diagram of 2-cells commutes. Second, we show that this implies that the free…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Nick Gurski , Angélica M. Osorno

This thesis is devoted to the proof of a theorem showing the existence of a closed model category structure for weakly enriched categories. It requires first of all the definitions of weakly enriched categories and equivalences of weakly…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Regis Pellissier

Recent work in set theory indicates that there are many different notions of 'set', each captured by a different collection of axioms, as proposed by J. Hamkins in [Ham11]. In this paper we strive to give one class theory that allows for a…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Alec Rhea

Grothendieck develops the theory of pro-objects over a category $\mathsf{C}$. The fundamental property of the category $\mathsf{Pro}(\mathsf{C})$ is that there is an embedding $\mathsf{C} \overset{c}{\longrightarrow}…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-24 M. Emilia Descotte , Eduardo J. Dubuc

We define a symmetric monoidal (4,3)-category with duals whose objects are certain enriched multi-fusion categories. For every modular tensor category $\mathcal{C}$, there is a self enriched multi-fusion category $\mathfrak{C}$ giving rise…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Hao Zheng

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

We want to replace categories, functors and natural transformations by categories, open functors and open natural transformations. In analogy with open dynamical systems, the adjective open is added here to mean that some external…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Alexandre Fernandez , Luidnel Maignan , Antoine Spicher

We introduce the notion of weighted limit in an arbitrary quasi-category, suitably generalizing ordinary limits in a quasi-category, and classical weighted limits in an ordinary category. This is accomplished by generalizing Joyal's…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Martina Rovelli

This article represents a preliminary attempt to link Kan extensions, and some of their further developments, to Fourier theory and quantum algebra through *-autonomous monoidal categories and related structures.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brian J. Day

We define a bicategory in which the 0-cells are the entwinings over variable rings. The 1-cells are triples of a bimodule and two maps of bimodules which satisfy an additional hexagon, two pentagons and two (co)unit triangles; and the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-11-25 Zoran Škoda

Categories enriched over a commutative unital quantale can be studied as generalized, or many-valued, ordered structures. Because many concepts, such as complete distributivity, in lattice theory can be characterized by existence of certain…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hongliang Lai , Dexue Zhang

We construct a model structure on the category of small categories enriched over a combinatorial closed symmetric monoidal model category satisfying the monoid axiom. Weak equivalences are Dwyer-Kan equivalences, i.e. enriched functors…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Fernando Muro

In some bicategories, the 1-cells are `morphisms' between the 0-cells, such as functors between categories, but in others they are `objects' over the 0-cells, such as bimodules, spans, distributors, or parametrized spectra. Many…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-15 Michael A. Shulman

Fong developed `decorated cospans' to model various kinds of open systems: that is, systems with inputs and outputs. In this framework, open systems are seen as the morphisms of a category and can be composed as such, allowing larger open…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Kenny Courser

Category theory provides a compact method of encoding mathematical structures in a uniform way, thereby enabling the use of general theorems on, for example, equivalence and universal constructions. In this article we develop the method of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. V. Golubtsov , S. S. Moskaliuk

We generalize proarrow equipments from strict category theory to the $\infty$-categorical setting, introducing the concept of $\infty$-equipments. These are specific double $\infty$-categories that support an internal higher category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Jaco Ruit

This preprint contains a part of the results of our earlier preprint arXiv:0907.3335v2 presented in a form suitable for journal publication. It covers a construction of a 2-fold monoidal structure on the category of tetramodules, with all…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-10 Boris Shoikhet