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Constructions of spectra from symmetric monoidal categories are typically functorial with respect to strict structure-preserving maps, but often the maps of interest are merely lax monoidal. We describe conditions under which one can…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Nick Gurski , Niles Johnson , Angélica M. Osorno

Additive categories play a fundamental role in mathematics and related disciplines. Given an additive category equipped with a biadditive functor, one can construct its category of extensions, which encodes important structural information.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Raphael Bennett-Tennenhaus , Johanne Haugland , Mads Hustad Sandøy , Amit Shah

The fact that the cocommutative comonoids in a symmetric monoidal category form the best possible approximation by a cartesian category is revisited when the original category is only braided monoidal. This leads to the question when the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Ulrich Krähmer , Myriam Mahaman

The notion of Kan extendable subcategories was initially introduced to define the category of compactly generated fibrewise topological spaces over a T1 base space and to establish its cartesian closure. In this paper, we show that the same…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Moncef Ghazel , Inès Saihi , Walid Taamallah

We study categories whose objects are the braid representations, i.e. strict monoidal functors $F\colon B\rightarrow Mat$ from the braid category $B$ to the category of matrices $Mat$. Braid representations are equivalent to solutions to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-24 P. P. Martin , E. C. Rowell , F. Torzewska

In the well-known settings of category theory enriched in a monoidal category V, the use of V-enriched functor categories and bifunctors demands that V be equipped with a symmetry, braiding, or duoidal structure. In this paper, we establish…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Rory B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright

Let $\mathcal{B}$ be a subcategory of a given category $\mathcal{D}$. Let $\mathcal{B}$ has monoidal structure. In this article, we discuss when can one extend the monoidal structure of $\mathcal{B}$ to $\mathcal{D}$ such that $\mathcal{B}$…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Neha Gupta , Pradip Kumar

It is shown that the multiplicative monoids of Temperley-Lieb algebras generated out of the basis are isomorphic to monoids of endomorphisms in categories where an endofunctor is adjoint to itself. Such a self-adjunction is found in a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-07-10 K. Dosen , Z. Petric

In 1994, Long and Moody gave a construction on representations of braid groups which associates a representation of \mathbf{B}\_{n} with a representation of \mathbf{B}\_{n+1}. In this paper, we prove that this construction is functorial and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Arthur Souli{é}

An overcategory with base category C is merely any functor into C. In this paper we extend the work of Dominique Bourn and Jacques Penon ("Cat\'egorification de structures d\'efinies par monade cart\'esienne") on overcategories. In…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Camell Kachour

We identify general conditions, formulated using the projection formula morphisms, for a functor that is simultaneously left and right adjoint to a strong monoidal functor to be a Frobenius monoidal functor. Moreover, we identify stronger…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Johannes Flake , Robert Laugwitz , Sebastian Posur

We show that contrary to appearances, Multimodal Type Theory (MTT) over a 2-category M can be interpreted in any M-shaped diagram of categories having, and functors preserving, M-sized limits, without the need for extra left adjoints. This…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Michael Shulman

This paper considers the possible underlying multicategories for a symmetric monoidal category, and shows that, up to canonical and coherent isomorphism, there really is only one. As a result, there is a well-defined forgetful functor from…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 A. D. Elmendorf

We study Galois extensions Coinv(M)<M for M an H-comodule algebra and H a Frobenius Hopf algebroid. We obtain generalizations of various theorems in Hopf-Galois theory by Kreimer-Takeuchi, Doi-Takeuchi and Cohen-Fischman-Montgomery. An…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Balint , K. Szlachanyi

This dissertation comprises three collections of results, all united by a common theme. The theme is the study of categories via algebraic techniques, considering categories themselves as algebraic objects. This algebraic approach to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-29 John D. Berman

We set up a fibred categorical theory of obstruction and classification of morphisms that specializes to the one of monoidal functors between categorical groups and also to the Schreier-Mac Lane theory of group extensions. Further…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Alan S. Cigoli , Sandra Mantovani , Giuseppe Metere , Enrico M. Vitale

The categorified theories known as "doctrines" specify a category equipped with extra structure, analogous to how ordinary theories specify a set with extra structure. We introduce a new framework for doctrines based on double category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Michael Lambert , Evan Patterson

Skew-monoidal categories arise when the associator and the left and right units of a monoidal category are, in a specific way, not invertible. We prove that the closed skew-monoidal structures on the category of right R-modules are…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Kornel Szlachanyi

In connection with the emerging theory of Garside categories, we develop the notions of a left-Garside category and of a locally left-Garside monoid. In this framework, the connection between the self-distributivity law LD and braids…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-28 Patrick Dehornoy

We describe a general framework for notions of commutativity based on enriched category theory. We extend Eilenberg and Kelly's tensor product for categories enriched over a symmetric monoidal base to a tensor product for categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Richard Garner , Ignacio López Franco