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We give an introduction to the topics of our forthcoming work, in which we introduce and study new mathematical objects which we call "higher theories" of algebras, where inspiration for the term comes from William Lawvere's notion of…

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In various subjects including mathematics, one can hope to use mathematical thinking well when the right kinds of algebraic structure to consider can be discovered or spotted. Therefore, it would help to understand kinds of algebraic…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Takuo Matsuoka

Universal algebra uniformly captures various algebraic structures, by expressing them as equational theories or abstract clones. The ubiquity of algebraic structures in mathematics and related fields has given rise to several variants of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Soichiro Fujii

Higher-dimensional category theory is the study of n-categories, operads, braided monoidal categories, and other such exotic structures. Although it can be treated purely as an algebraic subject, it is inherently topological in nature: the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Leinster

We construct a colored operad whose category of algebras is the category of algebraic quantum field theories. This is achieved by a construction that depends on the choice of a category, whose objects provide the operad colors, equipped…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Marco Benini , Alexander Schenkel , Lukas Woike

Universal algebra uniformly captures various algebraic structures, by expressing them as equational theories or abstract clones. The ubiquity of algebraic structures in mathematics and related fields has given rise to several variants of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Soichiro Fujii

This article develops a comprehensive theory of multiary graded polyadic algebras, extending the classical concept of group-graded algebras to higher-arity structures. We introduce the notion of grading by multiary groups and investigate…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Steven Duplij

We introduce the notion of algebraic higher symmetry, which generalizes higher symmetry and is beyond higher group. We show that an algebraic higher symmetry in a bosonic system in $n$-dimensional space is characterized and classified by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Liang Kong , Tian Lan , Xiao-Gang Wen , Zhi-Hao Zhang , Hao Zheng

It is well known since Stasheff's work that 1-fold loop spaces can be described in terms of the existence of higher homotopies for associativity (coherence conditions) or equivalently as algebras of contractible non-symmetric operads. The…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-07 M. A. Batanin

Categorification is the process of finding category-theoretic analogs of set-theoretic concepts by replacing sets with categories, functions with functors, and equations between functions by natural isomorphisms between functors, which in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-11-18 John C. Baez , James Dolan

Process theories provide a powerful framework for describing compositional structures across diverse fields, from quantum mechanics to computational linguistics. Traditionally, they have been formalized using symmetric monoidal categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-12 John H. Selby , Maria E. Stasinou , Matt Wilson , Bob Coecke

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

In this paper we continue our investigation of the global categorical symmetries that arise when gauging finite higher groups and their higher subgroups with discrete torsion. The motivation is to provide a common perspective on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-28 Thomas Bartsch , Mathew Bullimore , Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Jamie Pearson

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

Quantum field theory allows more general symmetries than groups and Lie algebras. For instance quantum groups, that is Hopf algebras, have been familiar to theoretical physicists for a while now. Nowdays many examples of symmetries of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2010-04-15 Urs Schreiber , Zoran Škoda

The purpose of this dissertation is to set up a theory of generalized operads and multicategories, and to use it as a language in which to propose a definition of weak n-category. Included is a full explanation of why the proposed…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Leinster

An algebraic theory $T$ is a category with objects $t_0,t_2...$ such that for each $n$ the object $t_n$ is an $n$-fold categorical product of $t_1$. A strict $T$-algebra is a product preserving functor $A: T\to Spaces$. Lawvere showed that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernard Badzioch

We present generalized algebraic theories corresponding to slightly modified versions of two of the type theories in our paper Type Theory with Explicit Universe Polymorphism. We first present a generalized algebraic theory for categories…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Marc Bezem , Thierry Coquand , Peter Dybjer , Martín Escardó

We generalize fundamental notions of higher algebra, traditionally developed within the $\infty$-category of spectra, to the broader setting of $t$-structured tensor triangulated $\infty$-categories ($ttt$-$\infty$-categories). Under a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Jiacheng Liang

We propound the thesis that there is a limitation to the number of possible structures which are axiomatically endowed with identities involving operations. In the case of algebras with a binary operation satisfying a formally reducible (to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Constantin M. Petridi , P. B. Krikelis
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