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We reconcile the two different category-theoretic semantics of regular theories in predicate logic. A 2-category of `regular fibrations' is constructed, as well as a 2-category of `regular proarrow equipments', and it is shown that the two…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Finn Lawler

The paper defines polynomials in a bicategory $\mathscr{M}$. Polynomials in bicategories $\mathrm{Spn}\mathscr{C} \ $ of spans in a finitely complete category $\mathscr{C} \ $ agree with polynomials in $\mathscr{C} \ $ as defined by Nicola…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Ross Street

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

In this article the notion of virtual double category (also known as fc-multicategory) is extended as follows. While cells in a virtual double category classically have a horizontal multi-source and single horizontal target, the notion of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Seerp Roald Koudenburg

In this thesis, we develop the theory of bifibrations of polycategories. We start by studying how to express certain categorical structures as universal properties by generalising the shape of morphism. We call this phenomenon…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Nicolas Blanco

We use the terms $\infty$-categories and $\infty$-functors to mean the objects and morphisms in an $\infty$-cosmos: a simplicially enriched category satisfying a few axioms, reminiscent of an enriched category of fibrant objects.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Emily Riehl , Dominic Verity

We introduce a notion of Poincar\'e duality for pairs of $\infty$-categories, extending Poincar\'e-Lefschetz duality for pairs of spaces. This categorical extension yields an efficient book-keeping device that affords, among other things, a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Andrea Bianchi , Kaif Hilman , Dominik Kirstein , Christian Kremer

In this paper we consider a notion of pointwise Kan extension in double categories that naturally generalises Dubuc's notion of pointwise Kan extension along enriched functors. We show that, when considered in equipments that admit…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-10 Seerp Roald Koudenburg

The familiar construction of categories of fractions, due to Gabriel and Zisman, allows one to invert a class W of arrows in a category in a universal way. Similarly, bicategories of fractions allow one to invert a collection of arrows in a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Dorette A. Pronk , Michael A. Warren

We introduce the dual notions of $\mathcal{E}(\mathcal{X},M,\mathcal{Y})$ and $\mathcal{M}(\mathcal{X},M,\mathcal{Y})$, and investigate when they have enough injective objects or projective objects, when they are resolving or co-resolving,…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Dancheng Lu , Panpan Xie

We point out that double categories provide a natural setting for modular functors obtained by a (bicategorical) string-net construction: The source of the modular functor -- which is now a double functor -- is a symmetric monoidal double…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Jürgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert , Yang Yang

Cartesian differential categories are categories equipped with a differential combinator which axiomatizes the directional derivative. Important models of Cartesian differential categories include classical differential calculus of smooth…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Mario Alvarez-Picallo , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

We show that factorization systems, both strict and orthogonal, can be equivalently described as double categories satisfying certain properties. This provides conceptual reasons for why the category of sets and partial maps or the category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Miloslav Štěpán

We develop a categorical framework for reasoning about abstract properties of differentiation, based on the theory of fibrations. Our work encompasses the first-order fragments of several existing categorical structures for differentiation,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Matteo Capucci , Geoffrey S. H. Cruttwell , Neil Ghani , Fabio Zanasi

Given a double category D such that D_0 has pushouts, we characterize oplax/lax adjunctions between D and Cospan(D_0) such that the right adjoint is normal and restricts to the identity on D_0, where Cospan(D_0) denotes the double category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-19 Susan Niefield

In this thesis I lift the Curry--Howard--Lambek correspondence between the simply-typed lambda calculus and cartesian closed categories to the bicategorical setting, then use the resulting type theory to prove a coherence result for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Philip Saville

We propose definitions of regular and exact (virtual) double categories, proving a number of results which parallel many basic results in the theory of regular and exact categories. We show that any regular virtual double category admits a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Patrick Schultz

We provide a bicategorical generalization of Barr's landmark 1970 paper, in which he describes how to extend Set-monads to relations and uses this to characterize topological spaces as the relational algebras of the ultrafilter monad. With…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Quentin Aristote , Umberto Tarantino

It is well known that to give an oplax functor of bicategories $\mathbf{1}\to\mathscr{C}$ is to give a comonad in $\mathscr{C}$. Here we generalize this fact, replacing the terminal bicategory by any bicategory $\mathscr{A}$ for which the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Charles Walker

Category theory is a branch of mathematics that provides a formal framework for understanding the relationship between mathematical structures. To this end, a category not only incorporates the data of the desired objects, but also…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Niels van der Weide , Nima Rasekh , Benedikt Ahrens , Paige Randall North