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We construct a functor that inputs a retract in an $(\infty,3)$-category satisfying some adjunctibility conditions and outputs a Hopf algebra in a braided monoidal $(\infty,1)$-category. Provided the braided monoidal category is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Theo Johnson-Freyd , David Reutter

We introduce a category-theoreticabstraction of a syntax with auxiliary functions, called an admissiblemonad morphism. Relying on an abstract form of structural recursion,we then design generic tools to construct admissible monad…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Tom Hirschowitz , Ambroise Lafont

Riehl and Verity have established that for a quasi-category $A$ that admits limits, and a homotopy coherent monad on $A$ which does not preserve limits, the Eilenberg-Moore object still admits limits; this can be interpreted as a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Joanna Ko

We introduce dicodensity monads: a generalisation of pointwise codensity monads generated by functors to monads generated by mixed-variant bifunctors. Our construction is based on the notion of strong dinaturality (also known as Barr…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Maciej Piróg , Filip Sieczkowski

We establish a correspondence between modules and spans of algebras within a general monoidal 2-category $\mathfrak{C}$. Specifically, for an algebra $A$ in $\mathfrak{C}$, we construct a normalized lax 3-functor from the 2-category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Hao Xu

One way of interpreting a left Kan extension is as taking a kind of "partial colimit", whereby one replaces parts of a diagram by their colimits. We make this intuition precise by means of the "partial evaluations" sitting in the so-called…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Paolo Perrone , Walter Tholen

For functors $L:\A\to \B$ and $R:\B\to \A$ between any categories $\A$ and $\B$, a {\em pairing} is defined by maps, natural in $A\in \A$ and $B\in \B$, $$\xymatrix{\Mor_\B (L(A),B) \ar@<0.5ex>[r]^{\alpha} & \Mor_\A…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-30 Robert Wisbauer

This chapter describes interrelations between: (1) algebraic structure on sets of scalars, (2) properties of monads associated with such sets of scalars, and (3) structure in categories (esp. Lawvere theories) associated with these monads.…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Dion Coumans , Bart Jacobs

We categorify cocompleteness results of monad theory, in the context of pseudomonads. We first prove a general result establishing that, in any 2-category, weighted bicolimits can be constructed from oplax bicolimits and bicoequalizers of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Axel Osmond

Via the adjunction $ - \boldsymbol{\cdot} 1 \dashv \mathcal V(1,-) \colon \mathsf{Span}(\mathcal V) \to \mathcal V \text{-} \mathsf{Mat} $ and a cartesian monad $ T $ on an extensive category $ \mathcal V $ with finite limits, we construct…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Rui Prezado , Fernando Lucatelli Nunes

We present the notion of "cyclic double multicategory", as a structure in which to organise multivariable adjunctions and mates. The classic example of a 2-variable adjunction is the hom/tensor/cotensor trio of functors; we generalise this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-24 Eugenia Cheng , Nick Gurski , Emily Riehl

We describe free rigid commutative algebras in $2$-presentably symmetric monoidal $(\infty,2)$-categories as oplax colimits over the $1$-dimensional framed cobordism category. The special case of the $(\infty,2)$-category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Maxime Ramzi

We develop a theory of adjunctions in semigroup categories, i.e. monoidal categories without a unit object. We show that a rigid semigroup category is promonoidal, and thus one can naturally adjoin a unit object to it. This extends the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Mateusz Stroiński

In this paper we consider the conditions that need to be satisfied by two families of pseudofunctors with a common codomain for them to be collated into a bifunctor. We observe similarities between these conditions and distributive laws of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Peter F. Faul , Graham Manuell , Jose Siqueira

There are two dual equivalences between the $\infty$-category of $\mathcal{O}$-monoidal $\infty$-categories with right adjoint lax $\mathcal{O}$-monoidal functors and that with left adjoint oplax $\mathcal{O}$-monoidal functors, where…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Takeshi Torii

In the category of monoids we characterize monomorphisms that are normal, in an appropriate sense, to internal reflexive relations, preorders or equivalence relations. The zero-classes of such internal relations are first described in terms…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Nelson Martins-Ferreira , Manuela Sobral

In this work, we describe an adjunction between the comma category of SET-based monads under the V-powerset monad and the category of associative lax extensions of SET-based monads to the category of V-relations. In the process, we give a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Dirk Hofmann , Gavin J. Seal

In this paper we present $2$-category theory from the perspective of Gray-categories using the graphical calculus of separated surface diagrams. As an extended example we consider cones and limits of $2$-functors. Then we use the canonical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Edward Morehouse

We extend the classical work of Kock on strong and commutative monads, as well as the work of Hyland and Power for 2-monads, in order to define strong and pseudocommutative relative pseudomonads. In order to achieve this, we work in the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Andrew Slattery

In this paper, we give precise mathematical form to the idea of a structure whose data and axioms are faithfully represented by a graphical calculus; some prominent examples are operads, polycategories, properads, and PROPs. Building on the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Richard Garner , Tom Hirschowitz