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We develop bicategory theory in univalent foundations. Guided by the notion of univalence for (1-)categories studied by Ahrens, Kapulkin, and Shulman, we define and study univalent bicategories. To construct examples of univalent…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Benedikt Ahrens , Dan Frumin , Marco Maggesi , Niccolò Veltri , Niels van der Weide

This thesis focuses on topics in 2-category theory: in particular on double categories, pseudomonads and codescent objects. In Chapter 2 we recall all the necessary notions. In Chapter 3 we show that factorization systems can be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Miloslav Štěpán

Categories can be identified -- up to isomorphism -- with polynomial comonads on Set. The left Kan extension of a functor along itself is always a comonad -- called the density comonad -- so it defines a category when its carrier is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-28 David I. Spivak

fc-multicategories are a very general kind of two-dimensional structure, encompassing bicategories, monoidal categories, double categories and ordinary multicategories. We define them and explain how they provide a natural setting for two…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Leinster

Pronk's theorem on bicategories of fractions is applied, in almost all cases in the literature, to 2-categories of geometrically presentable stacks on a 1-site. We give an proof that subsumes all previous such results and which is purely…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-02 David Michael Roberts

We introduce the notion of an oplax Hopf monoid in any braided monoidal bicategory, generalizing that of a Hopf monoid in a braided monoidal category in an appropriate way. We show that Hopf V-categories introduced in [BCV16] are a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Mitchell Buckley , Timmy Fieremans , Christina Vasilakopoulou , Joost Vercruysse

We show how the notion of intercategory encompasses a wide variety of three-dimensional structures from the literature, notably duoidal categories, monoidal double categories, cubical bicategories, double bicategories and Gray categories.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Robert Paré , Marco Grandis

In this paper we study a 2-dimensional version of Quillen's homotopy category construction. Given a category $\mathscr{A}$ and a class of morphisms $\Sigma \subset \mathscr{A}$ containing the identities, we construct a 2-category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Eduardo J. Dubuc , Jaqueline Girabel

This paper considers the possible underlying multicategories for a symmetric monoidal category, and shows that, up to canonical and coherent isomorphism, there really is only one. As a result, there is a well-defined forgetful functor from…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 A. D. Elmendorf

We show that the double category $\mathbb{C}\mathbf{at}^\#$ of comonoids in the category of polynomial functors (previously shown by Ahman-Uustalu and Garner to be equivalent to the double category of categories, cofunctors, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Owen Lynch , Brandon T. Shapiro , David I. Spivak

Univalent categories constitute a well-behaved and useful notion of category in univalent foundations. The notion of univalence has subsequently been generalized to bicategories and other structures in (higher) category theory. Here, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Kobe Wullaert , Ralph Matthes , Benedikt Ahrens

We extend the arithmetic product of species of structures and symmetric sequences studied by Maia and Mendez and by Dwyer and Hess to coloured symmetric sequences and show that it determines a normal oplax monoidal structure on the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Nicola Gambino , Richard Garner , Christina Vasilakopoulou

Generalized multicategories, also called $T$-monoids, are well known class of mathematical structures, which include diverse set of examples. In this paper we construct a generalization of the adjunction between strict monoidal categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Dimitri Chikhladze

We extend the comatrix coring to the case of a quasi-finite bicomodule. We also generalize some of its interesting properties. We study equivalences between categories of comodules over rather general corings. We particularize to the case…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohssin Zarouali-Darkaoui

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 introduce monoidal categories whose monoidal products of any positive number of factors are lax coherent and whose nullary products are oplax coherent. We call them $\mathsf{Lax}^+\mathsf{Oplax}^0$-monoidal. Dually, we consider…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Gabriella Böhm , Joost Vercruysse

Monoidal functors U:C --> M with left adjoints determine, in a universal way, monoids T in the category of oplax monoidal endofunctors on M. Such monads will be called bimonads. Treating bimonads as abstract "quantum groupoids" we derive…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Szlachanyi

In this paper, we discuss the generalization of finitary $2$-representation theory of finitary $2$-categories to finitary birepresentation theory of finitary bicategories. In previous papers on the subject, the classification of simple…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Marco Mackaay , Volodymyr Mazorchuk , Vanessa Miemietz , Daniel Tubbenhauer , Xiaoting Zhang

As shown in a previous paper by the same authors, the theory of Galois functors provides a categorical framework for the characterisation of bimonads on any category as Hopf monads and also for the characterisation of opmonoidal monads on…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-08 Bachuki Mesablishvili , Robert Wisbauer

We introduce the category of bicomodules for a comonad in a Grothendieck category whose underlying functor is right exact and preserves direct sums. We characterize comonads with a separable forgetful functor by means of cohomology groups…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. El Kaoutit , J. Vercruysse