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We show that diagrammatic sets, a topologically sound alternative to polygraphs and strict $\omega$-categories, admit an internal notion of equivalence in the sense of coinductive weak invertibility. We prove that equivalences have the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Clémence Chanavat , Amar Hadzihasanovic

Some aspects of basic category theory are developed in a finitely complete category $\C$, endowed with two factorization systems which determine the same discrete objects and are linked by a simple reciprocal stability law. Resting on this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-06 Claudio Pisani

We introduce a natural concept of positive definiteness for bundle maps between Fell bundles over (possibly different) discrete groups and describe several examples. Such maps induce completely positive maps between the associated full…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Erik Bédos , Roberto Conti

Connections between heaps of modules and (affine) modules over rings are explored. This leads to explicit, often constructive, descriptions of some categorical constructions and properties that are implicit in universal algebra and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Simion Breaz , Tomasz Brzezinski , Bernard Rybolowicz , Paolo Saracco

We construct supercharacter theories of finite unipotent groups in the orthogonal, symplectic and unitary types. Our method utilizes group actions in a manner analogous to that of Diaconis and Isaacs in their construction of supercharacters…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Scott Andrews

The paper uses the formalism of indexed categories to recover the proof of a standard final coalgebra theorem, thus showing existence of final coalgebras for a special class of functors on categories with finite limits and colimits. As an…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benno van den Berg , Federico De Marchi

We define a variety of notions of cubical sets, based on sites organized using substructural algebraic theories presenting PRO(P)s or Lawvere theories. We prove that all our sites are test categories in the sense of Grothendieck, meaning…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Ulrik Buchholtz , Edward Morehouse

We develop parametrized generalizations of a number of fundamental concepts in the theory of $\infty$-categories, including factorization systems, free fibrations, exponentiable fibrations, relative colimits and relative Kan extensions,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Jay Shah

We consider and characterize classes of finite and countably categorical structures and their theories preserved under $E$-operators and $P$-operators. We describe $e$-spectra and families of finite cardinalities for structures belonging to…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Sergey V. Sudoplatov

Category theory gives a mathematical characterization of naturality but not of canonicity. The purpose of this paper is to develop the logical theory of canonical maps based on the broader demonstration that the dual notions of elements &…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-07 David Ellerman

We consider notions of metrized categories, and then approximate categorical structures defined by a function of three variables generalizing the notion of $2$-metric space. We prove an embedding theorem giving sufficient conditions for an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Abdelkrim Aliouche , Carlos Simpson

We prove that given a fixed finite tree $P$, almost all trees contain $P$ as a subtree. Moreover, the inclusion can be made so that it induces an embedding of the corresponding (quantum) automorphism groups, thereby providing generic…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Lucas Alger , Julie Capron , Félix de la Salle

We discuss some finite homogeneous structures, addressing the question of universality of their automorphism groups. We also study the existence of so-called Kat\v{e}tov functors in finite categories of embeddings or homomorphisms.

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Wiesław Kubiś , Boriša Kuzeljević

We present a framework for characterizing injectivity of classes of maps (on cosets of a linear subspace) by injectivity of classes of matrices. Using our formalism, we characterize injectivity of several classes of maps, including…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Elisenda Feliu , Stefan Müller , Georg Regensburger

In this paper we classify global dimensions of the category algebras of some finite categories, including finite truncations of the categories $FI$, $FI_G$, $FI_d$, $OI$, $OI_G$, $OI_d$ and $VI$

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-26 L. Li , T. Zhang

A construction of the noncommutative-geometric counterparts of classical classifying spaces is presented, for general compact matrix quantum structure groups. A quantum analogue of the classical concept of the classifying map is introduced…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Mico Durdevic

This document reports on the use of an algebraic, visual, formal approach to the specification of patterns for the formalization of the GoF design patterns. The approach is based on graphs, morphisms and operations from category theory and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-03-18 Paolo Bottoni , Esther Guerra , Juan de Lara

We discuss here geometric structures of condensed matters by means of a fundamental topological method. Any geometric pattern can be universally represented by a decomposition space of a topological space consisting of the infinite product…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Shousuke Ohmori , Yoshihiro Yamazaki , Tomoyuki Yamamoto , Akihiko Kitada

Recent work in set theory indicates that there are many different notions of 'set', each captured by a different collection of axioms, as proposed by J. Hamkins in [Ham11]. In this paper we strive to give one class theory that allows for a…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Alec Rhea

We define and study structural properties of hypergraphs of models of a theory including lattice ones. Characterizations for the lattice properties of hypergraphs of models of a theory, as well as for structures on sets of isomorphism types…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Beibut Kulpeshov , Sergey Sudoplatov