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In this paper I define the notion of a non-degenerate finitely semi-simple semi-strict spherical 2-category of non-zero dimension. Given such a 2-category I define a state-sum for any triangulated compact closed oriented 4-manifold and show…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Marco Mackaay

We show how Stone duality can be extended from maps to relations. This is achieved by working order enriched and defining a relation from A to B as both an order-preserving function from the opposite of A times B to the 2-element chain and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Alexander Kurz , Andrew Moshier , Achim Jung

A quasivariety has the weak ES property when the epimorphisms between its finitely generated members are surjective. A characterization of quasivarieties with the weak ES property is obtained and a method for detecting failures of this…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Luca Carai , Miriam Kurtzhals , Tommaso Moraschini

Cluster algebras are categorified by cluster categories, and $g$-vectors are categorified by the classic index with respect to cluster tilting subcategories. However, the recently introduced completed discrete cluster categories of Dynkin…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Francesca Fedele , Peter Jorgensen , Amit Shah

We develop a new framework to study real $K$-theory in the context of $\infty$-categories. For this, we introduce Waldhausen $\infty$-categories with genuine duality, which will be the input for such $K$-theory. These are Waldhausen…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Hadrian Heine , Markus Spitzweck , Paula Verdugo

The 2-categories of strict 2-groups and crossed modules are introduced and their 2-equivalence is made explicit.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-09 Sven-S. Porst

The biduality and reflexivity theorems are known to hold for projective varieties defined over fields of characteristic zero, and to fail in positive characteristic. In this article, we construct a notion of reflexivity and biduality in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Aristides Kontogeorgis , Georgios Petroulakis

We study actions of discrete groups on 2-categories. The motivating examples are actions on the 2-category of representations of finite tensor categories and their relation with the extension theory of tensor categories by groups.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Eugenia Bernaschini , César Galindo , Martín Mombelli

We discuss two variations of Edwards' duality theorem. More precisely, we prove one version of the theorem for cones not necessarily containing all constant functions. In particular, we allow the functions in the cone to have a non-empty…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Mårten Nilsson , Frank Wikström

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

Farkas established that a system of linear inequalities has a solution if and only if we cannot obtain a contradiction by taking a linear combination of the inequalities. We state and formally prove several Farkas-like theorems over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Martin Dvorak , Vladimir Kolmogorov

In his fundamental work, Quillen developed the theory of the cotangent complex as a universal abelian derived invariant, and used it to define and study a canonical form of cohomology, encompassing many known cohomology theories. Additional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Yonatan Harpaz , Joost Nuiten , Matan Prasma

We prove a general theorem which includes most notions of "exact completion". The theorem is that "k-ary exact categories" are a reflective sub-2-category of "k-ary sites", for any regular cardinal k. A k-ary exact category is an exact…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-06 Michael Shulman

This paper is a rather informal guide to some of the basic theory of 2-categories and bicategories, including notions of limit and colimit, 2-dimensional universal algebra, formal category theory, and nerves of bicategories. As is the way…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Stephen Lack

We formulate and prove a twofold generalisation of Lie's second theorem that integrates homomorphisms between formal group laws to homomorphisms between Lie groups. Firstly we generalise classical Lie theory by replacing groups with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Matthew Burke

Categorical structures and their pseudomaps rarely form locally presentable 2-categories in the sense of Cat-enriched category theory. However, we show that if the categorical structure in question is sufficiently weak (such as the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 John Bourke

The invertibility hypothesis for a monoidal model category S asks that localizing an S-enriched category with respect to an equivalence results in an weakly equivalent enriched category. This is the most technical among the axioms for S to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Tyler Lawson

We develop the theory of tricategorical limits and colimits, and show that they can be modelled up to biequivalence via certain homotopically well-behaved limits and colimits enriched over the monoidal model category $\mathbf{Gray}$ of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Adrian Miranda

In this paper we study loops, neardomains and nearfields from a categorical point of view. By choosing the right kind of morphisms, we can show that the category of neardomains is equivalent to the category of sharply 2-transitive groups.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Philippe Cara , Rudger Kieboom , Tina Vervloet

The biggest challenge in hybrid systems verification is the handling of differential equations. Because computable closed-form solutions only exist for very simple differential equations, proof certificates have been proposed for more…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Andre Platzer