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We exhibit the proximity frames and proximity homomorphisms as a Kleisli category of a comonad whose underlying functor takes a proximity frame to its frame of round ideals. This construction is known in the literature as {\em stable…

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In this paper we redevelop the foundations of the category theory of quasi-categories (also called infinity-categories) using 2-category theory. We show that Joyal's strict 2-category of quasi-categories admits certain weak 2-limits, among…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Emily Riehl , Dominic Verity

This book is an introduction to 2-categories and bicategories, assuming only the most elementary aspects of category theory. A review of basic category theory is followed by a systematic discussion of 2-/bicategories, pasting diagrams, lax…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Niles Johnson , Donald Yau

The cartesian structure possessed by relations, spans, profunctors, and other such morphisms is elegantly expressed by universal properties in double categories. Though cartesian double categories were inspired in part by the older program…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Evan Patterson

We study lax functors between bicategories as a generalized concept of monads and describe generalized notions and theorems of formal monad theory for lax functors. Our first approach is to use the 2-monad whose lax algebras are lax…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Kengo Hirata

A group-category is an additively semisimple category with a monoidal product structure in which the simple objects are invertible. For example in the category of representations of a group, 1-dimensional representations are the invertible…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Quinn

We give a 3-categorical, purely formal argument explaining why on the category of Kleisli algebras for a lax monoidal monad, and dually on the category of Eilenberg-Moore algebras for an oplax monoidal monad, we always have a natural…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-03 Marek Zawadowski

This paper introduces a categorification of $k$-algebras called 2 -algebras, where k is a commutative ring. We define the 2-algebras as a 2-category with single object in which collections of all 1-morphisms and all 2-morphisms are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-21 İbrahim İlker Akça , Ummahan Ege Arslan

The Eilenberg-Moore constructions and a Beck-type theorem for pairs of monads are described. More specifically, a notion of a {\em Morita context} comprising of two monads, two bialgebra functors and two connecting maps is introduced. It is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-22 Tomasz Brzeziński , Adrian Vazquez Marquez , Joost Vercruysse

Compact categories have lately seen renewed interest via applications to quantum physics. Being essentially finite-dimensional, they cannot accomodate (co)limit-based constructions. For example, they cannot capture protocols such as quantum…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Chris Heunen

We introduce the notion of a distributive law between a relative monad and a monad. We call this a relative distributive law and define it in any 2-category $\mathcal{K}$. In order to do that, we introduce the 2-category of relative monads…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Gabriele Lobbia

In a locally $\lambda$-presentable category, with $\lambda$ a regular cardinal, classes of objects that are injective with respect to a family of morphisms whose domains and codomains are $\lambda$-presentable, are known to be characterized…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Jiri Rosicky , Walter Tholen

We use duality theorems to obtain presentations of some categories of modules. To derive these presentations we generalize a result of Cautis-Kamnitzer-Morrison [arXiv:1210.6437v4]: Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a reductive Lie algebra, and $A$ an…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Giulian Wiggins

Motivated by team semantics and existential second-order logic, we develop a model-theoretic framework for studying second-order objects such as sets and relations. We introduce a notion of abstract elementary team categories that…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Tapani Hyttinen , Joni Puljujärvi , Davide Emilio Quadrellaro

The category of open games, which provides a strongly compositional foundation of economic game theory, is intermediate between symmetric monoidal and compact closed. More precisely it has counits with no corresponding units, and a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Joe Bolt , Jules Hedges , Viktor Winschel

Working in the framework of $(T, V)$-categories, for a symmetric monoidal closed category $V$ and a (not necessarily cartesian) monad $T$, we present a common account to the study of ordered compact Hausdorff spaces and stably compact…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Dimitri Chikhladze , Maria Manuel Clementino , Dirk Hofmann

Categories, n-categories, double categories, and multicategories (among others) all have similar definitions as collections of cells with composition operations. We give an explicit description of the information required to define any…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Brandon Shapiro

We construct an internal language for cartesian closed bicategories. Precisely, we introduce a type theory modelling the structure of a cartesian closed bicategory and show that its syntactic model satisfies an appropriate universal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Marcelo Fiore , Philip Saville

Bicommutant categories are higher categorical analogs of von Neumann algebras that were recently introduced by the first author. In this article, we prove that every unitary fusion category gives an example of a bicommutant category. This…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-12-20 André Henriques , David Penneys

Idempotent analogues of convexity are introduced. It is proved that the category of algebras for the capacity monad in the category of compacta is isomorphic to the category of $(\max,\min)$-idempotent biconvex compacta and their biaffine…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-08 Oleh Nykyforchyn , Dušan Repovš