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We give an elementary introduction to the theory of triangulated categories covering their axioms, homological algebra in triangulated categories, triangulated subcategories, and Verdier localization. We try to use a minimal set of axioms…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2014-07-17 Tobias Fritz

We give a self-contained introduction to accessible categories and how they shed light on both model- and set-theoretic questions. We survey for example recent developments on the study of presentability ranks, a notion of cardinality…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Sebastien Vasey

The purpose of this paper is to show that the dual notions of elements & distinctions are the basic analytical concepts needed to unpack and analyze morphisms, duality, and universal constructions in the Sets, the category of sets and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-07 David Ellerman

We argue that category theory should become a part of the daily practice of the physicist, and more specific, the quantum physicist and/or informatician. The reason for this is not that category theory is a better way of doing mathematics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Bob Coecke

We present a doctrinal approach to category theory, obtained by abstracting from the indexed inclusions (via discrete fibrations and opfibrations) of the left and of the right actions of X in Cat in categories over X. Namely, a "weak…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-30 Claudio Pisani

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

This book introduces to the theory of probabilities from the beginning. Assuming that the reader possesses the normal mathematical level acquired at the end of the secondary school, we aim to equip him with a solid basis in probability…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Gane Samb Lo , Aladji Babacar Niang , Lois Chinewendu Okereke

Written to be contributed as the "mathematical modeling" chapter of a book, edited by Elaine Landry, to be titled "Categories for the Working Philosopher". In this chapter, category theory is presented as a mathematical modeling framework…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 David I. Spivak

We give a criterion for a functor \(F:C\rightarrow B\) between small categories to generate a small presentation of the universal model category \(U(B)\) in the sense of Dugger.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Seunghun Lee

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

With infinitely many high-quality data points, infinite computational power, an infinitely large foundation model with a perfect training algorithm and guaranteed zero generalization error on the pretext task, can the model be used for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yang Yuan

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

The growing complexity of modern practical problems puts high demands on the mathematical modelling. Given that various models can be used for modelling one physical phenomenon, the role of model comparison and model choice becomes…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Dmitrii Legatiuk

There are many books designed to introduce category theory to either a mathematical audience or a computer science audience. In this book, our audience is the broader scientific community. We attempt to show that category theory can be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-19 David I. Spivak

Representation theorems relate seemingly complex objects to concrete, more tractable ones. In this paper, we take advantage of the abstraction power of category theory and provide a general representation theorem for a wide class of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Mauro Jaskelioff , Russell O'Connor

We find new "reasons" for a class of models for not having a universal model in a cardinal $\lambda$. This work, though it has consequences in model theory, is really in combinatorial set theory. We concentrate on a prototypical class which…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Saharon Shelah

In work of Fokkinga and Meertens a calculational approach to category theory is developed. The scheme has many merits, but sacrifices useful type information in the move to an equational style of reasoning. By contrast, traditional proofs…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Daniel Marsden

We introduce the notion of a definable category--a category equivalent to a full subcategory of a locally finitely presentable category that is closed under products, directed colimits and pure subobjects. Definable subcategories are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Amit Kuber , Jiří Rosický

These are lecture notes for a 1-semester undergraduate course (in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, chemistry or biology) in applied categorical meta-language. The only necessary background for comprehensive reading of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2009-06-16 Vladimir G. Ivancevic , Tijana T. Ivancevic

There exists a dispute in philosophy, going back at least to Leibniz, whether is it possible to view the world as a network of relations and relations between relations with the role of objects, between which these relations hold, entirely…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Michael Heller