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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…

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This paper is a rather informal guide to some of the basic theory of 2-categories and bicategories, including notions of limit and colimit, 2-dimensional universal algebra, formal category theory, and nerves of bicategories. As is the way…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Stephen Lack

We introduce and study the Scott adjunction, relating accessible categories with directed colimits to topoi. Our focus is twofold, we study both its applications to formal model theory and its geometric interpretation. From the geometric…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Ivan Di Liberti

This book is an introduction to 2-categories and bicategories, assuming only the most elementary aspects of category theory. A review of basic category theory is followed by a systematic discussion of 2-/bicategories, pasting diagrams, lax…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Niles Johnson , Donald Yau

Originally enriched categories were defined over a monoidal category, but it was gradually realized that important examples can only be included when one enriches over more general structures such as bicategories and virtual double…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Soichiro Fujii , Stephen Lack

We characterize double adjunctions in terms of presheaves and universal squares, and then apply these characterizations to free monads and Eilenberg--Moore objects in double categories. We improve upon our earlier result in "Monads in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Thomas M. Fiore , Nicola Gambino , Joachim Kock

We construct an adjunction between $m$-categories internal to $(\infty,n)$-categories, called $(n,m)$-double $\infty$-categories, and filtrations $A_0\to \dots\to A_m$ where for all $i<m$, $A_i$ is a $(n+i)$-category. We show that this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Félix Loubaton

We introduce, comment and develop the Scott adjunction, mostly from the point of view of a category theorist. Besides its technical and conceptual aspects, in a nutshell we provide a categorification of the Scott topology over a posets with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Ivan Di Liberti

We show that, with some technical conditions, an abelian category can be embedded into the category of bimodules over a ring. The case of semisimple rigid monoidal categories is studied in more detail.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Phung Ho Hai

The notion of pseudocategory, as considered in [11], is extended from the context of a 2-category to the more general one of a sesquicategory, which is considered as a category equipped with a 2-cell structure. Some particular examples of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-21 N. Martins-Ferreira

We record an explicit proof of the theorem that lifts a two-variable adjunction to the arrow categories of its domains.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Fosco Loregian

We explain two related constructions on the data of two monoidal symmetric closed categories $\mathscr{A}$ and $\mathscr{E}$ and monoidal functors $F: \mathscr{E}\to \mathscr{A}$ and $G: \mathscr{A}\to \mathscr{E}$. In a first part, we…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Thomas H. M. Krantz

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 study the relationship between cartesian bicategories and a specialisation of Lawvere's hyperdoctrines, namely elementary existential doctrines. Both provide different ways of abstracting the structural properties of logical systems: the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Filippo Bonchi , Alessio Santamaria , Jens Seeber , Paweł Sobociński

We prove two theorems on the derived categories of toric varieties, the existence of an exceptional collection consisting of sheaves for a divisorial extraction and the finiteness of Fourier-Mukai partners.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-02 Yujiro Kawamata

We extend Igusa's description of the relation between invariants of binary sextics and Siegel modular forms of degree two to a relation between covariants and vector-valued Siegel modular forms of degree two. We show how this relation can…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Fabien Cléry , Carel Faber , Gerard van der Geer

Each distributor between categories enriched over a small quantaloid Q gives rise to two adjunctions between the categories of contravariant and covariant presheaves, and hence to two monads. These two adjunctions are respectively…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Lili Shen , Dexue Zhang

We present a bicategorical perspective on derived Morita theory for rings, DG algebras, and spectra. This perspective draws a connection between Morita theory and the bicategorical Yoneda Lemma, yielding a conceptual unification of Morita…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-06-03 Niles Johnson

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

We define bicategories internal to 2-categories. When the ambient 2-category is symmetric monoidal categories, this provides a convenient framework for encoding the structures of a symmetric monoidal 3-category. This framework is well…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Christopher L. Douglas , André G. Henriques