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The category of models of any theory $T$ in any first-order language $L$ has the surprising property that any small category that is elementarily equivalent with it, already embeds in it. The proof uses an abstract argument via ultrapowers,…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Hans Schoutens

Neural Network Field Theories (NN-FTs) represent a novel construction of arbitrary field theories, including those of conformal fields, through the specification of the network architecture and prior distribution for the network parameters.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Pietro Capuozzo , Brandon Robinson , Benjamin Suzzoni

In this paper, we deal with the notions of naturality from category theory and definablity from model theory and their interactions. In this regard, we present three results. First, we show, under some mild conditions, that naturality…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Mohsen Asgharzadeh , Mohammad Golshani , Saharon Shelah

Recently Feferman (Rev. Symb. Logic 6: 6-15, 2013) has outlined a program for the development of a foundation for naive category theory. While Ernst (ibid. 8: 306-327, 2015) has shown that the resulting axiomatic system is still…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Marcoen J. T. F. Cabbolet

Recently, the separated fragment (SF) of first-order logic has been introduced. Its defining principle is that universally and existentially quantified variables may not occur together in atoms. SF properly generalizes both the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Marco Voigt

We introduce Neural Conjugate Flows (NCF), a class of neural network architectures equipped with exact flow structure. By leveraging topological conjugation, we prove that these networks are not only naturally isomorphic to a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Arthur Bizzi , Lucas Nissenbaum , João M. Pereira

Category theory can be used to state formulas in First-Order Logic without using set membership. Several notable results in logic such as proof of the continuum hypothesis can be elegantly rewritten in category theory. We propose in this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chan Le Duc

This paper addresses the current lack of a unified formal framework in machine learning theory, as well as the absence of robust theoretical foundations for interpretability and ethical safety assurance. We first construct a formal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jianfeng Xu

The notion of a categorical quotient can be generalized since its standard categorical concept does not recover the expected quotients in certain categories. We present a more general formulation in the form of $\mathcal{F}$-quotients in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Jordan Mitchell Barrett , Valentino Vito

We introduce and study a new class of differential fields in positive characteristic. We call them separably differentially closed fields and demonstrate that they are the differential analogue of separably closed fields. We prove several…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Kai Ino , Omar Leon Sanchez

In the present paper, we propose a new axiomatic approach to nonstandard analysis and its application to the general theory of spatial structures in terms of category theory. Our framework is based on the idea of internal set theory, while…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Hayato Saigo , Juzo Nohmi

This is a PhD Thesis on the connection between subfactors (more precisely, their corresponding fusion categories) and Conformal Field Theory (CFT). Besides being a mathematically interesting topic on its own, subfactors have also attracted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ramona Wolf

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

Locales have been studied as "topologies without points", mainly by tools of category theory. While traditional topology presents a space as a set of points with specified neighborhoods, localic topology presents a space as a lattice of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Dusko Pavlovic

Representation stability is a theory describing a way in which a sequence of representations of different groups is related, and essentially contains a finite amount of information. Starting with Church-Ellenberg-Farb's theory of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Nir Gadish

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 propose a novel logic, called Frame Logic (FL), that extends first-order logic (with recursive definitions) using a construct Sp(.) that captures the implicit supports of formulas -- the precise subset of the universe upon which their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Adithya Murali , Lucas Peña , Christof Löding , P. Madhusudan

We rewrite simplicially the standard definitions of a complete first order theory, a model of it, and various characterisations of stability of a complete first order theory. In our reformulations the simplicial language replaces the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Misha Gavrilovich

As the prototypical category, $\mathbf{Set}$ has many properties which make it special amongst categories. From the point of view of mathematical logic, one such property is that $\mathbf{Set}$ has enough structure to "properly" formalise…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Jordan Mitchell Barrett

We introduce a general categorical framework for finiteness conditions that unifies classical notions such as Noetherianness, Artinianness, and various forms of topological compactness. This is achieved through the concept of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-15 David Forsman