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In this work, we prove a generalization of Quillen's Theorem A to 2-categories equipped with a special set of morphisms which we think of as weak equivalences, providing sufficient conditions for a 2-functor to induce an equivalence on…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Fernando Abellán García , Walker H. Stern

In this paper, we will prove that the 2-category (2-SGp) of symmetric 2-groups and 2-category ($\cR$-2-Mod) of $\cR$-2-modules(\cite{5}) have enough projective objects, respectively.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-25 Fang Huang , Shao-Han Chen , Wei Chen , Zhu-Jun Zheng

Bicat is the tricategory of bicategories, homomorphisms, pseudonatural transformations, and modifications. Gray is the subtricategory of 2-categories, 2-functors, pseudonatural transformations, and modifications. We show that these two…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Stephen Lack

Limit can be defined by two axioms: 1. Strict inequality between limits implies, ultimately, strict inequality between functions. 2. For constant functions limit is trivial. How can basic results on convergence be derived from these axioms?…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2008-05-26 Bogdan M. Baishanski

We show that quasi-projective relation algebras and directed cylindric algebras are equivalent categorialy. We work out a Godels second incompleteness theorem for finite varibale fragments of first order logic. We show that distinct set…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Tarek Sayed Ahmed

Regular logic is the fragment of first order logic generated by $=$, $\top$, $\wedge$, and $\exists$. A key feature of this logic is that it is the minimal fragment required to express composition of binary relations; another is that it is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Brendan Fong , David I Spivak

A Lie 2-algebra is a linear category equipped with a functorial bilinear operation satisfying skew-symmetry and Jacobi identity up to natural transformations which themselves obey coherence laws of their own. Functors and natural…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Dmitry Roytenberg

In a recent paper, Enayat and Le lyk [2024] show that second order arithmetic and countable set theory are not definitionally equivalent. It is well known that these theories are biinterpretable. Thus, we have a pair of natural theories…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Jason Chen , Toby Meadows

Motivated by the analysis and geometry of metric-measure structures in infinite dimensions, we study the category of extended metric-topological spaces, along with many of its distinguished subcategories (such as the one of compact spaces).…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Enrico Pasqualetto , Timo Schultz , Janne Taipalus

We classify all spherical 2-designs that arise as orbits of finite group actions on real inner product spaces. Although it is well known that such designs can occur in representations without trivial components, we give a complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Kuan-Cheng Chien , Ming-Hsuan Kang

The paper establishes an equivalence between directed homotopy categories of (diagrams of) cubical sets and (diagrams of) directed topological spaces. This equivalence both lifts and extends an equivalence between classical homotopy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Sanjeevi Krishnan

Grothendieck develops the theory of pro-objects over a category $\mathsf{C}$. The fundamental property of the category $\mathsf{Pro}(\mathsf{C})$ is that there is an embedding $\mathsf{C} \overset{c}{\longrightarrow}…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-24 M. Emilia Descotte , Eduardo J. Dubuc

We show the existence of bilimits of 2-cofiltered diagrams of topoi, generalizing the construction of cofiltered bilimits developed in "SGA 4 Springer LNM 270 (1972)". For any given such diagram, we show that it can be represented by a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-07-11 Eduardo J. Dubuc , Sergio Yuhjtman

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

We study limit cycles in piecewise complex systems with switching manifold $\mathbb{S}^1$. Using M\"obius transformations we establish an equivalence between circular and straight-line discontinuities that preserves periods, stability, and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Gabriel Rondón , Paulo R. da Silva , Jaume Llibre

Given a finite dimensional algebra $A$, we consider certain sets of idempotents of $A$, called self-injective cores, to which we associate 2-subcategories of the 2-category of projective bimodules over $A$. We classify the simple transitive…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Mateusz Stroiński

We discuss the tropical analogues of several basic questions of convex duality. In particular, the polar of a tropical polyhedral cone represents the set of linear inequalities that its elements satisfy. We characterize the extreme rays of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Xavier Allamigeon , Stephane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz

In this article we analyze the structure of $2$-categories of symmetric projective bimodules over a finite dimensional algebra with respect to the action of a finite abelian group. We determine under which condition the resulting…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Volodymyr Mazorchuk , Vanessa Miemietz , Xiaoting Zhang

The first goal of this survey paper is to argue that if orbifolds are groupoids, then the collection of orbifolds and their maps has to be thought of as a 2-category. Compare this with the classical definition of Satake and Thurston of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Eugene Lerman

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