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This paper explores differential bundles in tangent categories, characterizing them as functors from a structure category. This is analogous to the actegory perspective of Garner and Leung, which we also use to describe the tangent…

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Differential categories provide the categorical foundations for the algebraic approaches to differentiation. They have been successful in formalizing various important concepts related to differentiation, such as, in particular,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay , Chiara Sava

Topos theory is a category-theoretic axiomatization of set theory. Model categories are a category-theoretical framework for abstract homotopy theory. They are complete and cocomplete categories endowed with three classes of morphisms…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Hirokazu Nishimura

We extend Deligne's notion of determinant functor to tensor triangulated categories. Specifically, to account for the multiexact structure of the tensor, we define a determinant functor on the 2-multicategory of triangulated categories and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Ettore Aldrovandi , Cynthia Lester

This paper explores the interplay between category theory, topology, and the algebraic theory of finite groups. Our analysis unfolds in three stages. First, we establish the foundational universe of our objects: the complete and cocomplete…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Ismael Gutierrez Garcia , Luz Adriana Mejía Castaño

We generalise the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to higher dimensions. Our generalisation is based on the observation that the antiderivative of a function of $n$-variables is a solution of a partial differential equation of order $n$…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Filip Bár

Tangent categories offer a categorical context for differential geometry, by categorifying geometric notions like the tangent bundle functor, vector fields, Euclidean spaces, vector bundles, connections, etc. In the last decade, the theory…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Marcello Lanfranchi

Let $X$ be a scheme. In this text, we extend the known definitions of a topology on the set $X(R)$ of $R$-rational points from topological fields, local rings and ad\`ele rings to any ring $R$ with a topology. This definition is functorial…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Oliver Lorscheid , Cecília Salgado

We prove that the notion of Drinfeld center defines a functor from the category of indecomposable multi-tensor categories with morphisms given by bimodules to that of braided tensor categories with morphisms given by monoidal bimodules.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Liang Kong , Hao Zheng

This is the second in a series of papers laying the foundations for a differential graded approach to derived differential geometry (and other geometries in characteristic zero). In this paper, we extend the classical notion of a dg-algebra…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-18 David Carchedi , Dmitry Roytenberg

Tangent category theory is a well-established categorical framework for differential geometry. A long list of fundamental geometric constructions, such as the tangent bundle functor, vector fields, Euclidean spaces, and vector bundles have…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Marcello Lanfranchi

We construct a fully faithful functor from the category of graphs to the category of fields. Using this functor, we resolve a longstanding open problem in computable model theory, by showing that for every nontrivial countable structure S,…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Russell Miller , Bjorn Poonen , Hans Schoutens , Alexandra Shlapentokh

The aim of this work is to lay the foundations of differential geometry and Lie theory over the general class of topological base fields and -rings for which a differential calculus has been developed in recent work (collaboration with H.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Bertram

Cartesian differential categories are categories equipped with a differential combinator which axiomatizes the directional derivative. Important models of Cartesian differential categories include classical differential calculus of smooth…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Mario Alvarez-Picallo , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

A differential calculus on an associative algebra A is an algebraic analogue of the calculus of differential forms on a smooth manifold. It supplies A with a structure on which dynamics and field theory can be formulated to some extent in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 H. C. Baehr , A. Dimakis , F. Müller-Hoissen

This paper studies fundamental questions concerning category-theoretic models of induction and recursion. We are concerned with the relationship between well-founded and recursive coalgebras for an endofunctor. For monomorphism preserving…

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We define a unified categorical framework for studying six subproblems arising from the classical Four Subspace Problem. For each subproblem, we construct a functor from its associated category to the category of representations of the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Ivon Dorado , Gonzalo Medina

We introduce the notion of a rank function on a triangulated category $\mathcal{C}$ which generalizes the Sylvester rank function in the case when $\mathcal{C}=\operatorname{Perf}(A)$ is the perfect derived category of a ring $A$. We show…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Joseph Chuang , Andrey Lazarev

We develop a generalization of manifold calculus in the sense of Goodwillie-Weiss where the manifold is replaced by a simplicial complex. We consider functors from the category of open subsets of a fixed simplical complex into the category…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Steffen Tillmann

Starting from the Colombeau's full generalized functions, the sharp topologies and the notion of generalized points, we introduce a new kind differential calculus (for functions between totally disconnected spaces). We study generalized…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Wagner Cortes , Antonio R. G. Garcia , Severino H. da Silva