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We describe how to perform surgeries on Joyal-Street style diagrams and thereby construct free Markov categories. We also show that the construction is functorial over ordered directed acyclic graphs.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Yimu Yin

In this work we define formal grammars in terms of free monoidal categories, along with a functor from the category of formal grammars to the category of automata. Generalising from the Booleans to arbitrary semirings, we extend our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Dan Shiebler , Alexis Toumi , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

For a discrete colored operad $P$, we construct an adjunction between the category of dendroidal sets over the nerve of $P$ and the category of simplicial $P$-algebras, and prove that when $P$ is $\Sigma$-free it establishes a Quillen…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Francesca Pratali

We construct so called Hall monoidal categories (and Hall modules thereover) and exhibit them as a categorification of classical Hall and Hecke algebras (and certain modules thereover). The input of the (functorial!) construction are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Tashi Walde

Over suitable monoidal model categories, we construct a Dwyer-Kan model category structure on the category of algebras over an augmented operadic collection. As examples we obtain Dwyer-Kan model category structure on the categories of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Donald Yau

We review the construction of braided tensor categories and modular tensor categories from representations of vertex operator algebras, which correspond to chiral algebras in physics. The extensive and general theory underlying this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky

A construction of Kleisli objects in 2-categories of noncartesian internal categories or categories internal to monoidal categories is presented.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Tomasz Brzeziński , Adrian Vazquez Marquez

We study the relationship between presheaf constructions and free cocompletions in the context of formal category theory, elucidating the coincidence between the two concepts in familiar settings. We show that, in a virtual equipment…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Nathanael Arkor , Dylan McDermott

We follow the work of Aguiar on internal categories and introduce simplicial objects internal to a monoidal category as certain colax monoidal functors. Then we compare three approaches to equipping them with a discrete set of vertices. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Arne Mertens

We characterize double adjunctions in terms of presheaves and universal squares, and then apply these characterizations to free monads and Eilenberg--Moore objects in double categories. We improve upon our earlier result in "Monads in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Thomas M. Fiore , Nicola Gambino , Joachim Kock

We study structures which have arisen in recent work by the present author and Bob Coecke on a categorical axiomatics for Quantum Mechanics; in particular, the notion of strongly compact closed category. We explain how these structures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-16 Samson Abramsky

We prove that the arrow category of a monoidal model category, equipped with the pushout product monoidal structure and the projective model structure, is a monoidal model category. This answers a question posed by Mark Hovey, and has the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-27 David White , Donald Yau

Any variety of classical algebras has a so-called conformal counterpart. For example one can consider Lie conformal or associative conformal algebras. Lie conformal algebras are closely related to vertex algebras. We define free objects in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Roitman

Skew morphisms, which generalise automorphisms for groups, provide a fundamental tool for the study of regular Cayley maps and, more generally, for finite groups with a complementary factorisation $G=BY$, where $Y$ is cyclic and core-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Martin Bachratý , Marston Conder , Gabriel Verret

One goal of applied category theory is to better understand networks appearing throughout science and engineering. Here we introduce "structured cospans" as a way to study networks with inputs and outputs. Given a functor $L \colon…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-11 John C. Baez , Kenny Courser

We introduce and study structured enhancement of the notion of a crossed simplicial group, which we call an operadic crossed simplicial group. We show that with each operadic crossed simplicial group one can associate a certain operad in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Artem Semidetnov

In this paper, we define and study weak monoidal Hom-Hopf algebras, which generalize both weak Hopf algebras and monoidal Hom-Hopf algebras. If $H$ is a weak monoidal Hom-Hopf algebra with bijective antipode and let $Aut_{wmHH}(H)$ be the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-02-27 Wei Wang , Shuanhong Wang , Xiaohui Zhang

We study the free objects in the variety of semigroups and variety of monoids generated by the monoid of all $n \times n$ upper triangular matrices over a commutative semiring. We obtain explicit representations of these, as multiplicative…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Mark Kambites

A modular object in a symmetric monoidal bicategory is a Frobenius algebra object whose product and coproduct are biadjoint, equipped with a braided structure and a compatible twist, satisfying rigidity, ribbon, pivotality, and modularity…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Bruce Bartlett , Christopher L. Douglas , Christopher J. Schommer-Pries , Jamie Vicary

In this document, we collect a list of categorical structures on the category $\mathbf{Poly}$ of polynomial functors. There is no implied claim that this list is in any way complete. It includes: infinitely many monoidal structures, all but…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 David I. Spivak