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A bicategory approach to differential cohomology is presented. Based on the axioms of Bunke-Schick, a symmetric monoidal groupoid is associated to differential refinements of cohomology theories. It is proven that such differential…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Markus Upmeier

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

We establish a correspondence between modules and spans of algebras within a general monoidal 2-category $\mathfrak{C}$. Specifically, for an algebra $A$ in $\mathfrak{C}$, we construct a normalized lax 3-functor from the 2-category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Hao Xu

We investigate the triangulated structure of stable monomorphism categories (filtered chain categories) over a Frobenius category. The high degree of symmetry of linear quivers leads to a plethora of semiorthogonal decompositions into…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Jonas Frank , Mathias Schulze

We present a method of constructing monoidal, braided monoidal, and symmetric monoidal bicategories from corresponding types of monoidal double categories that satisfy a lifting condition. Many important monoidal bicategories arise…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Linde Wester Hansen , Michael Shulman

We define biprops as a generalization of coloured props and of symmetric weak multicategories. These are bicategories whose objects form a free monoid. They are equipped with some structure resembling a symmetric strict tensor product. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Volodymyr Lyubashenko

After two papers on weak cubical categories and {\it collarable} cospans, respectively, we put things together and construct a {\it weak} cubical category of cubical {\it collared} cospans of topological spaces. We also build a second…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Marco Grandis

Structures where we have both a contravariant (pullback) and a covariant (pushforward) functoriality that satisfy base change can be encoded by functors out of ($\infty$-)categories of spans (or correspondences). In this paper we study the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Elden Elmanto , Rune Haugseng

Interest in weak cubical n-categories arises in various contexts, in particular in topological field theories. In this paper, we describe a concept of double bicategory, namely a strict model of the theory of bicategories in Bicat. We show…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-15 Jeffrey C. Morton

In this paper we investigate the construction of bicategories of fractions originally described by D. Pronk: given any bicategory $\mathcal{C}$ together with a suitable class of morphisms $\mathbf{W}$, one can construct a bicategory…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Matteo Tommasini

We give the definitions of model bicategory and $q$-homotopy, which are natural generalizations of the notions of model category and homotopy to the context of bicategories. For any model bicategory $\mathcal{C}$, denote by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-06 M. E. Descotte , E. J. Dubuc , M. Szyld

Let $\mathcal{X}$ be a resolving and contravariantly finite subcategory of $\rm{mod}\mbox{-}\Lambda$, the category of finitely generated right $\Lambda$-modules. We associate to $\mathcal{X}$ the subcategory…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Rasool Hafezi , Intan Muchtadi-Alamsyah

We introduce a notion of extraction-contraction coproduct on twisted bialgebras, that is to say bialgebras in the category of linear species. If $P$ is a twisted bialgebra, a contraction-extraction coproduct sends $P[X]$ to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Loïc Foissy

We show that a functor category whose domain is a colored category is a topos.The topos structure enables us to introduce cohomology of colored categories including quasi-schemoids. If the given colored category arises from an association…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Katsuhiko Kuribayashi , Yasuhiude Numata

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with unit. We develop a Hochschild cohomology theory in the category $\mathcal{F}$ of linear functors defined from an essentially small symmetric monoidal category enriched in $R$-Mod, to $R$-Mod. The category…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Nadia Romero

Let $A$ be a ring and $\M_A$ the category of $A$-modules. It is well known in module theory that for any $A $-bimodule $B$, $B$ is an $A$-ring if and only if the functor $-\otimes_A B: \M_A\to \M_A$ is a monad (or triple). Similarly, an $A…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2012-01-27 Gabriella Böhm , Tomasz Brzezinski , Robert Wisbauer

We introduce a functor $\mathcal V\colon \mathrm{DblCat}_{h,nps}\to \mathrm{2Cat}_{h,nps}$ extracting from a double category a $2$-category whose objects and morphisms are the vertical morphisms and squares. We give a characterisation of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Tslil Clingman , Lyne Moser

We prove coherence theorems for dualizable objects in monoidal bicategories and for fully dualizable objects in symmetric monoidal bicategories, describing coherent dual pairs and coherent fully dual pairs. These are property-like…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Piotr Pstrągowski

Just as binary relations between sets may be understood as jointly monic spans, so too may equivalence relations on the disjoint union of sets be understood as jointly epic cospans. With the ensuing notion of composition inherited from the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Brandon Coya , Brendan Fong

The homotopy theory of higher categorical structures has become a relevant part of the machinery of algebraic topology and algebraic K-theory, and this paper contains contributions to the study of the relationship between B\'enabou's…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-11 A. M. Cegarra , B. A. Heredia , J. Remedios