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A new approach is suggested to the problem of quantising causal sets, or topologies, or other such models for space-time (or space). The starting point is the observation that entities of this type can be regarded as objects in a category…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Isham

Deep learning, despite its remarkable achievements, is still a young field. Like the early stages of many scientific disciplines, it is marked by the discovery of new phenomena, ad-hoc design decisions, and the lack of a uniform and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Bruno Gavranović

We first study commutative, pointed monoids providing basic definitions and results in a manner similar commutative ring theory. Included are results on chain conditions, primary decomposition as well as normalization for a special class of…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Jaret Flores

The purpose of this paper is to show that the dual notions of elements & distinctions are the basic analytical concepts needed to unpack and analyze morphisms, duality, and universal constructions in the Sets, the category of sets and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-07 David Ellerman

It is informally understood that the purpose of modal type constructors in programming calculi is to control the flow of information between types. In order to lend rigorous support to this idea, we study the category of classified sets, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-11-12 G. A. Kavvos

In this paper we define a sequence of monads $\mathbb{T}^(\infty;n)$ $(n\in\mathbb{N})$ on $\infty$-$\mathbb{G}\text{r}$, the category of the $\infty$-graphs. We conjecture that algebras for $\mathbb{T}^(0;n)$ which are defined in a purely…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2012-08-06 Camell Kachour

Bimonoidal categories (also known as rig categories) are categories with two monoidal structures, one of which distributes over the other. We formally define sheet diagrams, a graphical calculus for bimonoidal categories that was informally…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Cole Comfort , Antonin Delpeuch , Jules Hedges

Graded modal logics generalise standard modal logics via families of modalities indexed by an algebraic structure whose operations mediate between the different modalities. The graded "of-course" modality $!_r$ captures how many times a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Victoria Vollmer , Danielle Marshall , Harley Eades , Dominic Orchard

Polygraphs are a higher-dimensional generalization of the notion of directed graph. Based on those as unifying concept, this monograph on polygraphs revisits the theory of rewriting in the context of strict higher categories, adopting the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Dimitri Ara , Albert Burroni , Yves Guiraud , Philippe Malbos , François Métayer , Samuel Mimram

Categories with families (CwFs) have been used to define the semantics of type theory in type theory. In the setting of Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT), one of the limitations of the traditional notion of CwFs is the requirement to set-truncate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Thorsten Altenkirch , Ambrus Kaposi , Szumi Xie

The article proposes a method for constructing non-standard theories based on terms from partially existing sequences of elements. The method is illustrated by the example of the theory of monoids. Predicates and terms from non-standard…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-31 V. M. Zhuravlov

The aim of these notes is to introduce the intuition motivating the notion of a "complicial set", a simplicial set with certain marked "thin" simplices that witness a composition relation between the simplices on their boundary. By varying…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Emily Riehl

This note is a contribution written for the second volume of the Encyclopedia of mathematical physics. We give an informal introduction to the notions of an $(\infty,n)$-category and $(\infty,n)$-functor, discussing some of the different…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Viktoriya Ozornova , Martina Rovelli

It is well-known that the category of Kleisli algebras for a monoidal monad carries a canonical monoidal structure. We define the notion of a commutative graded monad and present a strictly two-categorical proof that Kleisli algebras for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Rowan Poklewski-Koziell

These are lectures notes for a mini-course given at the conference Interactions of Quantum Affine Algebras with Cluster Algebras, Current Algebras, and Categorification in June 2018. The goal is to introduce the reader to string diagram…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Alistair Savage

We explain the sense in which a warping on a monoidal category is the same as a pseudomonad on the corresponding one-object bicategory, and we describe extensions of this to the setting of skew monoidal categories: these are a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Stephen Lack , Ross Street

The Catalan numbers are well-known to be the answer to many different counting problems, and so there are many different families of sets whose cardinalities are the Catalan numbers. We show how such a family can be given the structure of a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Mitchell Buckley , Richard Garner , Stephen Lack , Ross Street

We study rewriting for equational theories in the context of symmetric monoidal categories where there is a separable Frobenius monoid on each object. These categories, also called hypergraph categories, are increasingly relevant: Frobenius…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Fabio Zanasi

This is an introductory textbook to univalent mathematics and homotopy type theory, a mathematical foundation that takes advantage of the structural nature of mathematical definitions and constructions. It is common in mathematical practice…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Egbert Rijke

Algebraic structures such as monoids, groups, and categories can be formulated within a category using commutative diagrams. In many common categories these reduce to familiar cases. In particular, group objects in Grp are abelian groups,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Magnus Forrester-Barker