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A double category is constructed from a `fattened' version of a given category, motivated in part by a context of parallel transport. We also study monoidal structures on the underlying category and on the fattened category.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Saikat Chatterjee , Amitabha Lahiri , Ambar N. Sengupta

We develop a general theory of (extended) inner autoequivalences of objects of any 2-category, generalizing the theory of isotropy groups to the 2-categorical setting. We show how dense subcategories let one compute isotropy in the presence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Pieter Hofstra , Martti Karvonen

We construct a model structure on the category of small categories enriched over a combinatorial closed symmetric monoidal model category satisfying the monoid axiom. Weak equivalences are Dwyer-Kan equivalences, i.e. enriched functors…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Fernando Muro

Univalent categories constitute a well-behaved and useful notion of category in univalent foundations. The notion of univalence has subsequently been generalized to bicategories and other structures in (higher) category theory. Here, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Kobe Wullaert , Ralph Matthes , Benedikt Ahrens

An equivalent description of a symmetric monoidal category is introduced in which, instead of separate associator and commutator isomorphisms satisfying the usual coherence axioms, we simply have associo-commutator isomorphisms satisfying…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Josep Elgueta

We construct a compact closed category out of any symmetric monoidal category by freely adding adjoints to its objects. The morphisms of the completion are defined as string diagrams annotated by objects and morphisms from the original…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Antonin Delpeuch

A compact closed bicategory is a symmetric monoidal bicategory where every object is equipped with a weak dual. The unit and counit satisfy the usual "zig-zag" identities of a compact closed category only up to natural isomorphism, and the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Michael Stay

This paper considers the possible underlying multicategories for a symmetric monoidal category, and shows that, up to canonical and coherent isomorphism, there really is only one. As a result, there is a well-defined forgetful functor from…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 A. D. Elmendorf

We provide concrete models for generalized morphisms and Morita equivalences of topological 2-groupoids by introducing the notions of crossings and crossed extensions of groupoid crossed modules. A systematic study of these objects is…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-07 El-kaïoum M. Moutuou

For a finite dimensional algebra $A$, we prove that the bounded homotopy category of projective $A$-modules and the bounded derived category of $A$-modules are dual to each other via certain categories of locally-finite cohomological…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Xiao-Wu Chen

We prove that a category which is symmetric (relaxed) monoidal closed, (small) complete, well-powered and has a small cogenerating family, is cocomplete.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Alain Prouté

A groupoid is a small category in which each morphism has an inverse. A topological groupoid is a groupoid in which both sets of objects and morphisms have topologies such that all groupoid structure maps are continuous. The notion of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Osman Mucuk , Ilhan Icen

We investigate monoidal categories of formal contexts, in which states correspond to formal concepts. In particular we examine the category of bonds or Chu correspondences between contexts, which is known to be equivalent to the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Sean Tull

We study the totality of categories weakly enriched in a monoidal bicategory using a notion of enriched icon as 2-cells. We show that when the monoidal bicategory in question is symmetric then this process can be iterated. We show that…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-30 Eugenia Cheng , Nick Gurski

Motivated by the analysis and geometry of metric-measure structures in infinite dimensions, we study the category of extended metric-topological spaces, along with many of its distinguished subcategories (such as the one of compact spaces).…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Enrico Pasqualetto , Timo Schultz , Janne Taipalus

Given a monoidal $\infty$-category $C$ equipped with a monoidal recollement, we give a simple criterion for an object in $C$ to be dualizable in terms of the dualizability of each of its factors and a projection formula relating them.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Grigory Kondyrev , Aaron Mazel-Gee , Jay Shah

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

It is well-known that small categories have equivalent descriptions as partial monoids. We provide a formulation of partial monoid and partial monoid homomorphism involving $s$ and $t$ instead of identities and then following a recent…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Rachel A. D. Martins

When designing plans in engineering, it is often necessary to consider attributes associated to objects, e.g. the location of a robot. Our aim in this paper is to incorporate attributes into existing categorical formalisms for planning,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Spencer Breiner , John S. Nolan

It is common to encounter symmetric monoidal categories $\mathcal{C}$ for which every object is equipped with an algebraic structure, in a way that is compatible with the monoidal product and unit in $\mathcal{C}$. We define this formally…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Brendan Fong , David I Spivak