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We construct combinatorial model category structures on the categories of (marked) categories and (marked) pre-additive categories, and we characterize (marked) additive categories as fibrant objects in a Bousfield localization of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Ulrich Bunke , Alexander Engel , Daniel Kasprowski , Christoph Winges

We show that any pasting diagram in any $(\infty,2)$-category has a homotopically unique composite. This is achieved by showing that the free 2-category generated by a pasting scheme is the homotopy colimit of its cells as an…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Philip Hackney , Viktoriya Ozornova , Emily Riehl , Martina Rovelli

We extend Mazzola's counterpoint model using category theory, generalizing from the category $\mathbf{Set}$ to other topoi with suitable properties. This generalization suggests that counterpoint's essential structure depends on specific…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Octavio A. Agustín-Aquino , Juan Sebastián Arias , Enrique Ruiz Hernández

We adopt semimodel categories to extend fundamental results related to Bousfield localizations of model categories. More specifically, we generalize Bousfield-Friedlander Theorem and Hirschhorn Localization Theorem of cellular model…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Victor Carmona

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

In this master thesis, we extend results from classical simple homotopy theory to the world of stratified homotopy theory. To obtain a well-established framework to work in, we prove a series of results on two model categories of simplicial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Lukas Waas

In a previous article, we introduced notions of finiteness obstruction, Euler characteristic, and L^2-Euler characteristic for wide classes of categories. In this sequel, we prove the compatibility of those notions with homotopy colimits of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-28 Thomas M. Fiore , Wolfgang Lück , Roman Sauer

In this article we introduce the notion of a square structure on a model category, that generalises cubical model categories. We then show that under some homotopical conditions on this square structure the induced cubical category is a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Brice Le Grignou

In this paper we study compact closed categories within the context of homotopical algebra. We construct two new model category structures by localizing two (Quillen equivalent) model categories of symmetric monoidal categories with the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Amit Sharma

Following the theory of principal $\infty$-bundles of Niklaus-Schreiber-Steveson, we develop a homotopy categorification of Hopf algebras, which model quantum groups. We study their higher-representation theory in the setting of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Hank Chen , Florian Girelli

We define a notion of groupoidal 2-quasi-categories and show that they are the fibrant objects of a model structure on the category of $\Theta_2$-sets. We show that this model category is Quillen equivalent to the Kan-Quillen model category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Victor Brittes

For a Whitney stratification S of a space X (or more generally a topological stratification in the sense of Goresky and MacPherson) we introduce the notion of an S-constructible stack of categories on X. The motivating example is the stack…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-14 David Treumann

For a weak 2-group, we construct a bicategory of flat 2-group bundles over differentiable stacks as a localization of a functor bicategory. This description is amenable to explicit geometric constructions. For example, we show that flat…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Daniel Berwick-Evans , Emily Cliff , Laura Murray , Apurva Nakade , Emma Phillips

We consider four categories: the category of diagrams of small categories indexed by a given small category O, the (comma) category of small categories over O, the category of diagrams of simplicial sets indexed by O, and the category of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Steven R. Costenoble

In this article we review the theory of anafunctors introduced by Makkai and Bartels, and show that given a subcanonical site S, one can form a bicategorical localisation of various 2-categories of internal categories or groupoids at weak…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-25 David M. Roberts

We study a variation of Turaev's homotopy quantum field theories using 2-categories of surfaces. We define the homotopy surface 2-category of a space $X$ and define an $\cS_X$-structure to be a monoidal 2-functor from this to the 2-category…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Brightwell , P. Turner

We present a slight variation on a notion of weak \infty-groupoid introduced by Grothendieck in Pursuing Stacks and we study the homotopy theory of these \infty-groupoids. We prove that the obvious definition for homotopy groups of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Dimitri Ara

Lack described a Quillen model structure on the category GrayCat of Gray-categories and Gray-functors, for which the weak equivalences are the weak 3-equivalences. In this note, we adapt the technique of Gurski, Johnson, and Osorno to show…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Giovanni Ferrer

Let $C_\bullet$ be a simplicial object in the category $Cat$ of small categories. For a field $k$, taking the Grothendieck groups of isomorphism classes of $kC_n$-modules gives rise to a cochain complex, whose cohomology, which we refer to…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Markus Klemetti , Ran Levi , Henri Riihimaki , Daniel Solch

In this paper the concept of compatible weak factorization systems in general categories is introduced as a counterpart of compatible complete cotorsion pairs in abelian categories. We describe a method to construct model structures on…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Zhenxing Di , Liping Li , Li Liang