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Semi-algebraic set is a subset of the real space defined by polynomial equations and inequalities. In this paper, we consider the problem of deciding whether two given points in a semi-algebraic set are connected. We restrict to the case…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Cordian Riener , Robin Schabert , Thi Xuan Vu

It is known that there are Lie algebras with non-semigroup gradings, i.e. such that the binary operation on the grading set is not associative. We provide a similar example in the class of associative algebras.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Pasha Zusmanovich

In this document, we collect a list of categorical structures on the category $\mathbf{Poly}$ of polynomial functors. There is no implied claim that this list is in any way complete. It includes: infinitely many monoidal structures, all but…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 David I. Spivak

This is a survey of recent progress in several areas of combinatorial algebra. We consider combinatorial problems about free groups, polynomial algebras, free associative and Lie algebras. Our main idea is to study automorphisms and, more…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Alexander A. Mikhalev , Vladimir Shpilrain , Jie-Tai Yu

Recent research of the author has given an explicit geometric description of free (two-sided) adequate semigroups and monoids, as sets of labelled directed trees under a natural combinatorial multiplication. In this paper we show that there…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2009-05-08 Mark Kambites

In these lecture notes, we give a brief introduction to some elements of category theory. The choice of topics is guided by applications to functional programming. Firstly, we study initial algebras, which provide a mathematical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Benedikt Ahrens , Kobe Wullaert

It is shown that the classification theorems for semisimple algebraic groups in characteristic zero can be derived quite simply and naturally from the corresponding theorems for Lie algebras by using a little of the theory of tensor…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. S. Milne

We prove that the monoidal 2-category of cospans of finite linear orders and surjections is the universal monoidal category with an object X with a semigroup and a cosemigroup structures, where the two structures satisfy a certain…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-12 M. Menni , N. Sabadini , R. F. C. Walters

In this paper, we introduce and investigate \emph{bisemialgebras}and\emph{\ Hopf semialgebras} over commutative semirings. We generalize to the semialgebraic context several results on bialgebras and Hopf algebras over rings including the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Jawad Abuhlail , Nabeela Alsulaiman

We introduce the notion of the space of parallel strings with partially summable labels, which can be viewed as a geometrically constructed group completion of the space of particles with labels. We utilize this to construct a machinery…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Shingo Okuyama , Kazuhisa Shimakawa

The first steps towards linearisation of partial orders and equivalence relations are described. The definitions of partial orders and equivalence relations (on sets) are formulated in a way that is standard in category theory and that…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-07-08 Tomasz Brzeziński

As an example of the categorical apparatus of pseudo algebras over 2-theories, we show that pseudo algebras over the 2-theory of categories can be viewed as pseudo double categories with folding or as appropriate 2-functors into…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Thomas M. Fiore

We describe a finitary 2-monad on a locally finitely presentable 2-category for which not every pseudoalgebra is equivalent to a strict one. This shows that having rank is not a sufficient condition on a 2-monad for every pseudoalgebra to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-01-12 Michael A. Shulman

The construction of bases for quotients is an important problem. In this paper, applying the method of rewriting systems, we give a unified approach to construct sections---an alternative name for bases in semigroup theory---for quotients…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Xing Gao , Jin Zhang

We consider several types of non-existence theorems for functors. For example, there are no nontrivial functors from the category of groups (or the category of pointed sets, or vector spaces) to any small category. Another type of questions…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Emmanuel Dror Farjoun , Sergei O. Ivanov , Aleksandr Krasilnikov , Anatolii Zaikovskii

Abelian groups having partial orderings compatible with their binary operations have long been studied in the literature. In particular, lattice-ordered abelian groups constitute a universal-algebraic variety, and thus form a category which…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2012-01-25 Elijah Stines

The free algebra adjunction, between the category of algebras of a monad and the underlying category, induces a comonad on the category of algebras. The coalgebras of this comonad are the topic of study in this paper (following earlier…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Bart Jacobs

We give an alternate conception of string diagrams as labeled 1-dimensional oriented cobordisms, the operad of which we denote by Cob/O, where O is the set of string labels. The axioms of traced (symmetric monoidal) categories are fully…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-06 David I. Spivak , Patrick Schultz , Dylan Rupel

When a category is equipped with a 2-cell structure it becomes a sesquicategory but not necessarily a 2-category. It is widely accepted that the latter property is equivalent to the middle interchange law. However, little attention has been…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Nelson Martins-Ferreira

The aim of this article is to study certain categorical-algebraic frameworks for basic homological algebra, introduced in arXiv:2404.15896, with the aim of better understanding the differences between them. We focus on homological…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Florent Afsa