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Many of the properties of sectional category, topological complexity and homotopic distance are in fact derived from a small number of basic properties, which, once established, lead to all the others without further recourse to topology.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Jean-Paul Doeraene , Mohammed El Haouari

We define the notion of an indexed profunctor over a 2-category, and use it to develop an abstract theory of limits. The theory subsumes (conical) limits, weighted limits, ends and Kan extensions. Results include an abstract version of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Sori Lee

In this short expository note, we discuss, with plenty of examples, the bestiary of fibrations in quasicategory theory. We underscore the simplicity and clarity of the constructions these fibrations make available to end-users of higher…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Clark Barwick , Jay Shah

In previous work, we showed that there are appropriate model category structures on the category of simplicial categories and on the category of Segal precategories, and that they are Quillen equivalent to one another and to Rezk's complete…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-01-04 Julia E. Bergner

Evidence is given for the correctness of the Joyal-Riehl-Verity construction of the homotopy bicategory of the $(\infty, 2)$-category of $(\infty, 1)$-categories; in particular, it is shown that the analogous construction using complete…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Zhen Lin Low

We develop a notion of an algebra over an infinity-operad with values in infinity-categories which is completely intrinsic to the formalism of dendroidal sets. Its definition involves the notion of a coCartesian fibration of dendroidal sets…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Gijs Heuts

In the first part of this paper we study fibrations of $(\infty,2)$-categories. We give a simple characterization of such fibrations in terms of a certain square being a pullback, and apply this to show that in some cases…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Fernando Abellán , Rune Haugseng , Louis Martini

Abstract inner automorphisms can be used to promote any category into a 2-category, and we study two-dimensional limits and colimits in the resulting 2-categories. Existing connected colimits and limits in the starting category become…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Pieter Hofstra , Martti Karvonen

This paper is the first in a series of two papers, $\mathbf{Z}$-Categories I and $\mathbf{Z}$-Categories II, which develop the notion of $\mathbf{Z}$-category, the natural bi-infinite analog to strict $\omega$-categories, and show that the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Paul Lessard

Many structures of interest in two-dimensional category theory have aspects that are inherently strict. This strictness is not a limitation, but rather plays a fundamental role in the theory of such structures. For instance, a monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Nathanael Arkor , John Bourke , Joanna Ko

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

We start the general structure theory of not necessarily semisimple finite tensor categories, generalizing the results in the semisimple case (i.e. for fusion categories), obtained recently in our joint work with D.Nikshych. In particular,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pavel Etingof , Viktor Ostrik

In this paper we show that the Baues-Wirsching complex used to define cohomology of categories is a 2-functor from a certain 2-category of natural systems of abelian groups to the 2-category of chain complexes, chain homomorphism and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Fernando Muro

We describe several equivalent models for the infinity-category of infinity-local systems of chain complexes over a space using the framework of quasi-categories. We prove that the given models are equivalent as infinity-categories by…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Manuel Rivera , Mahmoud Zeinalian

In the sixties, Grothendieck developed the theory of pro-objects over a category. The fundamental property of the category $Pro(C)$ is that there is an embedding $C \stackrel{c}{\rightarrow} Pro(C)$, $Pro(C)$ is closed under small…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Maria Emilia Descotte

We make precise the analogy between Goodwillie's calculus of functors in homotopy theory and the differential calculus of smooth manifolds by introducing a higher-categorical framework of which both theories are examples. That framework is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Kristine Bauer , Matthew Burke , Michael Ching

We introduce the categories of quasi-measurable spaces, which are slight generalizations of the category of quasi-Borel spaces, where we now allow for general sample spaces and less restrictive random variables, spaces and maps. We show…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Patrick Forré

We prove that the homotopy theory of cofibration categories is equivalent to the homotopy theory of cocomplete quasicategories. This is achieved by presenting both homotopy theories as fibration categories and constructing an explicit…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Karol Szumiło

We introduce a notion of quantum function, and develop a compositional framework for finite quantum set theory based on a 2-category of quantum sets and quantum functions. We use this framework to formulate a 2-categorical theory of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Benjamin Musto , David Reutter , Dominic Verdon

Certain results involving "higher structures" are not currently accessible to computer formalization because the prerequisite $\infty$-category theory has not been formalized. To support future work on formalizing $\infty$-category theory…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Mario Carneiro , Emily Riehl