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Tangent category theory is a well-established categorical context for differential geometry. In a previous paper, a formal approach was adopted to provide a genuine Grothendieck construction in the context of tangent categories by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Marcello Lanfranchi

We adapt the notion of an algebraic theory to work in the setting of quasicategories developed recently by Joyal and Lurie. We develop the general theory at some length. We study one extended example in detail: the theory of commutative…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-09 James Cranch

The starting point of algebraic language theory is that regular languages of finite words are exactly those recognized by finite monoids. This finiteness condition gives rise to a topological space whose points, called profinite words,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Vincent Moreau

1. This paper shows how the universals of category theory in mathematics provide a model (in the Platonic Heaven of mathematics) for the self-predicative strand of Plato's Theory of Forms as well as for the idea of a "concrete universal" in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 David Ellerman

We show that the construction due to Leinster and Weber of a generalized Lawvere theory for a familially representable monad on a (co)presheaf category, and the associated ``nerve'' functor from monad algebras to (co)presheaves, have an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Brandon T. Shapiro , David I. Spivak

We provide a Lawvere-style definition for partial theories, extending the classical notion of equational theory by allowing partially defined operations. As in the classical case, our definition is syntactic: we use an appropriate class of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Ivan Di Liberti , Fosco Loregian , Chad Nester , Paweł Sobociński

Calculi of string diagrams are increasingly used to present the syntax and algebraic structure of various families of circuits, including signal flow graphs, electrical circuits and quantum processes. In many such approaches, the semantic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Brendan Fong , Fabio Zanasi

There is some consensus among orthodox category theorists that the concept of adjoint functors is the most important concept contributed to mathematics by category theory. We give a heterodox treatment of adjoints using heteromorphisms…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-18 David Ellerman

We study polynomial comonads and polynomial bicomodules. Polynomial comonads amount to categories. Polynomial bicomodules between categories amount to parametric right adjoint functors between corresponding copresheaf categories. These may…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-25 David I. Spivak , Richard Garner , Aaron David Fairbanks

We characterize the equational theories and Lawvere theories that correspond to the categories of analytic and polynomial monads on Set, and hence also the categories of the symmetric and rigid operads in Set. We show that the category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Stanisław Szawiel , Marek Zawadowski

The notion of associativity (which differs from the straightforward generalization of the usual associativity given by the move of parentheses in the relevant expression) for operations of high arity is introduced. It is proved that the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Dali Zangurashvili

Conceiving of premises as collected into sets or multisets, instead of sequences, may lead to triviality for classical and intuitionistic logic in general proof theory, where we investigate identity of deductions. Any two deductions with…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Kosta Dosen

We present a domain-specific type theory for constructions and proofs in category theory. The type theory axiomatizes notions of category, functor, profunctor and a generalized form of natural transformations. The type theory imposes an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Max S. New , Daniel R. Licata

Taking inspiration from the monadicity of complete atomic Boolean algebras, we prove that profinite modal algebras are monadic over Set. While analyzing the monadic functor, we recover the universal model construction - a construction…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Matteo De Berardinis , Silvio Ghilardi

An algebraic left Kan extension is a left Kan extension which interacts well with the algebraic structure present in the given situation, and these appear in various subjects such as the homotopy theory of operads and in the study of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Mark Weber

In the theory of coalgebras $C$ over a ring $R$, the rational functor relates the category of modules over the algebra $C^*$ (with convolution product) with the category of comodules over $C$. It is based on the pairing of the algebra $C^*$…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-17 Bachuki Mesablishvili , Robert Wisbauer

This article tackles categorical coherence within a two-dimensional generalization of Lawvere's functorial semantics. 2-theories, a syntactical way of describing categories with structure, are presented. From the perspective here afforded,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Noson S. Yanofsky

We introduce a category-theoreticabstraction of a syntax with auxiliary functions, called an admissiblemonad morphism. Relying on an abstract form of structural recursion,we then design generic tools to construct admissible monad…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Tom Hirschowitz , Ambroise Lafont

We extend Lawvere-Pitts prop-categories (aka. hyperdoctrines) to develop a general framework for providing "algebraic" semantics for nonclassical first-order logics. This framework includes a natural notion of substitution, which allows…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Colin Bloomfield , Yoshihiro Maruyama

Motivated by potential applications to theoretical computer science, in particular those areas where the Curry-Howard correspondence plays an important role, as well as by the ongoing search in pure mathematics for feasible approaches to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Lucius T. Schoenbaum