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A tangent category is a categorical abstraction of the tangent bundle construction for smooth manifolds. In that context, Cockett and Cruttwell develop the notion of differential bundle which, by work of MacAdam, generalizes the notion of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Michael Ching

We give yet another proof for Fa\`{a} di Bruno's formula for higher derivatives of composite functions. Our proof technique relies on reinterpreting the composition of two power series as the generating function for weighted integer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Steffen Eger

Tangent categories provide an axiomatic framework for understanding various tangent bundles and differential operations that occur in differential geometry, algebraic geometry, abstract homotopy theory, and computer science. Previous work…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-12 G. S. H. Cruttwell , Rory B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright

We build a tangent structure on the category of divided power algebras using a particular notion of semidirect product. We show that this tangent structure admits an adjoint tangent structure, which involves a version of K\"ahler…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Sacha Ikonicoff

We construct an A_infinity-category D(C|B) from a given A_infinity-category C and its full subcategory B. The construction is similar to a particular case of Drinfeld's quotient of differential graded categories. We use D(C|B) to construct…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-15 Volodymyr Lyubashenko , Sergiy Ovsienko

Tangent categories offer a categorical context for differential geometry, by categorifying geometric notions like the tangent bundle functor, vector fields, Euclidean spaces, vector bundles, connections, etc. In the last decade, the theory…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Marcello Lanfranchi

We revisit the definition of Cartesian differential categories, showing that a slightly more general version is useful for a number of reasons. As one application, we show that these general differential categories are comonadic over…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-22 G. S. H. Cruttwell

Cartesian differential categories were introduced to provide an abstract axiomatization of categories of differentiable functions. The fundamental example is the category whose objects are Euclidean spaces and whose arrows are smooth maps.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Richard Blute , Robin Cockett , Robert Seely

Tangent category theory is a well-established categorical framework for differential geometry. A long list of fundamental geometric constructions, such as the tangent bundle functor, vector fields, Euclidean spaces, and vector bundles have…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Marcello Lanfranchi

The category of affine schemes is a tangent category whose tangent bundle functor is induced by K\"ahler differentials, providing a direct link between algebraic geometry and tangent category theory. Moreover, this tangent bundle functor is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Marcello Lanfranchi , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

One goal of applied category theory is to understand open systems. We compare two ways of describing open systems as cospans equipped with extra data. First, given a functor $L \colon \mathsf{A} \to \mathsf{X}$, a "structured cospan" is a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-07 John C. Baez , Kenny Courser , Christina Vasilakopoulou

Cartesian differential categories come equipped with a differential combinator which axiomatizes the fundamental properties of the total derivative from differential calculus. The objective of this paper is to understand when the Kleisli…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

This paper provides a compositional approach to Taylor expansion, in the setting of cartesian differential categories. Taylor expansion is captured here by a functor that generalizes the tangent bundle functor to higher order derivatives.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Aymeric Walch

A tangent category is a category with an endofunctor, called the tangent bundle functor, which is equipped with various natural transformations that capture essential properties of the classical tangent bundle of smooth manifolds. In this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Sacha Ikonicoff , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay , Tim Van der Linden

If $\mathbf{C}$ is a category with pullbacks then there is a bicategory with the same objects as $\mathbf{C}$, spans as morphisms, and maps of spans as 2-morphisms, as shown by Benabou. Fong has developed a theory of "decorated" cospans,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Kenny Courser

Tangent categories provide an axiomatic approach to key structural aspects of differential geometry that exist not only in the classical category of smooth manifolds but also in algebraic geometry, homological algebra, computer science, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Rory B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright

Derivations provide a way of transporting ideas from the calculus of manifolds to algebraic settings where there is no sensible notion of limit. In this paper, we consider derivations in certain monoidal categories, called codifferential…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-04 Richard Blute , Rory B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright , Keith O'Neill

A tangent category is a category equipped with an endofunctor that satisfies certain axioms which capture the abstract properties of the tangent bundle functor from classical differential geometry. Cockett and Cruttwell introduced…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Benjamin MacAdam

Tangent categories were introduced by Rosicky as a categorical setting for differential structures in algebra and geometry; in recent work of Cockett, Crutwell and others, they have also been applied to the study of differential structure…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Richard Garner

A. A'Campo-Neuen and J. Hausen gave an example of an algebraic torus action on an open subset of the affine four space that admits no quotient in the category of algebraic varieties. We show that this example admits a quotient in the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-26 Devrim Celik