English
Related papers

Related papers: Sheaves, Cosheaves and Applications

200 papers

The purpose of this paper is to explain why the functor that sends a stratified topological space $S$ to the $\infty$-category of constructible (hyper)sheaves on $S$ with coefficients in a large class of presentable $\infty$categories is…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Peter J. Haine , Mauro Porta , Jean-Baptiste Teyssier

In the present paper, we introduce two-dimensional categorified Hall algebras of smooth curves and smooth surfaces. A categorified Hall algebra is an associative monoidal structure on the stable $\infty$-category…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Mauro Porta , Francesco Sala

Current continuous generative models (e.g., Diffusion Models, Flow Matching) implicitly assume that locally consistent causal mechanisms naturally yield globally coherent counterfactuals. In this paper, we prove that this assumption fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Rui Wu , Hong Xie , Yongjun Li

This book provides an inviting tour through sheaf theory, from the perspective of applied category theory and pitched at a less specialized audience than is typical with introductions to sheaves. The book makes it as easy as possible for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Daniel Rosiak

This document develops general concepts useful for extracting knowledge embedded in large graphs or datasets that have pair-wise relationships, such as cause-effect-type relations. Almost no underlying assumptions are made, other than that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Linas Vepstas

Intersection cohomology is a way to enhance classical cohomology, allowing us to use a famous result called Poincar\'e duality on a large class of spaces known as stratified pseudomanifolds. There is a theoretically powerful way to arrive…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Sebastian Cea

We develop the theory of ind-geometric stacks, in particular their coherent and ind-coherent sheaf theory. This provides a convenient framework for working with equivariant sheaves on ind-schemes, especially in derived settings. Motivating…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Sabin Cautis , Harold Williams

As data grows in size and complexity, finding frameworks which aid in interpretation and analysis has become critical. This is particularly true when data comes from complex systems where extensive structure is available, but must be drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Henry Kvinge , Brett Jefferson , Cliff Joslyn , Emilie Purvine

We outline an algorithm to recover the canonical (or, coarsest) stratification of a given finite-dimensional regular CW complex into cohomology manifolds, each of which is a union of cells. The construction proceeds by iteratively…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Vidit Nanda

This is an announcement of a long paper in progress. On a locally compact space, we introduce the stack of ind-sheaves (ind-objects of the category of sheaves with compact support) and construct the analogous of the usual six operations on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masaki Kashiwara , Pierre Schapira

The van Est map is a map from Lie groupoid cohomology (with respect to a sheaf taking values in a representation) to Lie algebroid cohomology. We generalize the van Est map to allow for more general sheaves, namely to sheaves of sections…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Joshua Lackman

The initial motivation of this work was to give a topological interpretation of two-periodic twisted de-Rham cohomology which is generalizable to arbitrary coefficients. To this end we develop a sheaf theory in the context of locally…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-12 Ulrich Bunke , Markus Spitzweck , Thomas Schick

This paper develops a theory of colimit sketches "with constructions" in higher category theory, formalising the input to the ubiquitous procedure of adjoining specified "constructible" colimits to a category such that specified "relation"…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Andrew W. Macpherson

Gerstenhaber and Schack ([GS]) developed a deformation theory of presheaves of algebras on small categories. We translate their cohomological description to sheaf cohomology. More precisely, we describe the deformation space of (admissible)…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Valery A. Lunts

What is a time-varying graph, a time-varying topological space, or, more generally, a mathematical structure that evolves over time? In this work, we lay the foundations for a general theory of temporal data by introducing categories of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , James Fairbanks , Martti Karvonen , Wilmer Leal , Frédéric Simard

The first goal of this paper is to provide an abstract framework in which to formulate and study local duality in various algebraic and topological contexts. For any stable $\infty$-category $\mathcal{C}$ together with a collection of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Tobias Barthel , Drew Heard , Gabriel Valenzuela

We develop persistent homology in the setting of filtrations of (Cech) closure spaces. Examples of filtrations of closure spaces include metric spaces, weighted graphs, weighted directed graphs, and filtrations of topological spaces. We use…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Peter Bubenik , Nikola Milićević

Let $X$ be a finite connected simplicial complex, and let $\delta$ be a perversity (i.e., some function from integers to integers). One can consider two categories: (1) the category of perverse sheaves cohomologically constructible with…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maxim Vybornov

We develop the geometric and homological framework for non-commutative $n$-ary $\Gamma$-semirings by constructing a sheaf and derived theory over their non-commutative $\Gamma$-spectrum. Starting with a non-commutative $n$-ary…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Chandrasekhar Gokavarapu

These notes aim to give a first introduction to intersection cohomology and perverse sheaves with applications to representation theory or quantum groups in mind.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Konstanze Rietsch