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Several monads of probability measures have been shown to have presentations as codensity monads over small categories of stochastic maps. This paper studies how three key properties of these probability monads, relevant to categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Zev Shirazi

We introduce a tensor product for symmetric monoidal categories with the following properties. Let SMC denote the 2-category with objects small symmetric monoidal categories, arrows symmetric monoidal functors and 2-cells monoidal natural…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-11 Vincent Schmitt

In this article we show how to build main aspects of our paper on globular weak $(\infty,n)$-categories, but now for the cubical geometry. Thus we define a monad on the category $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{S}ets$ of cubical sets which algebras are…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Camell Kachour

We develop the K-theory of sets with an action of a pointed monoid (or monoid scheme), analogous to the $K$-theory of modules over a ring (or scheme). In order to form localization sequences, we construct the quotient category of a nice…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Ian Coley , Charles Weibel

Everyone knows that if you have a bivariant homology theory satisfying a base change formula, you get an representation of a category of correspondences. For theories in which the covariant and contravariant transfer maps are in mutual…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Andrew W. Macpherson

Algebra objects in $\infty$-categories of spans admit a description in terms of $2$-Segal objects. We introduce a notion of span between $2$-Segal objects and extend this correspondence to an equivalence of $\infty$-categories.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Jonte Gödicke

In many situations one encounters an entity that resembles a monoid. It consists of a carrier and two operations that resemble a unit and a multiplication, subject to three equations that resemble associativity and left and right unital…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Paul Blain Levy , Morgan Rogers

We develop the idea of a supersymmetric monoidal supercategory, following ideas of Kapranov. Roughly, this is a monoidal category in which the objects and morphisms are ${\bf Z}/2$-graded, equipped with isomorphisms $X \otimes Y \to Y…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Steven V Sam , Andrew Snowden

Categories can be identified -- up to isomorphism -- with polynomial comonads on Set. The left Kan extension of a functor along itself is always a comonad -- called the density comonad -- so it defines a category when its carrier is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-28 David I. Spivak

Linearly distributive categories were introduced to model the tensor/par fragment of linear logic, without resorting to the use of negation. Linear bicategories are the bicategorical version of linearly distributive categories. Essentially,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Richard Blute , Rose Kudzman-Blais , Susan Niefield

A new and extensive formalism is developed for monads and galaxies in non-standard enlargements. It is shown that monads and galaxies can be manipulated using order-preserving and order-reversing set-to-set maps, and that set properties…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Niels Charlier , Hans Vernaeve

We introduce a 3-dimensional categorical structure which we call intercategory. This is a kind of weak triple category with three kinds of arrows, three kinds of 2-dimensional cells and one kind of 3-dimensional cells. In one dimension, the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-14 Marco Grandis , Robert Paré

In this paper we introduce the notion of $a$-monoidal distributive law between two Hopf quasigroups $A$ and $H$. We prove that every $a$-monoidal distributive law induce a product on $A\otimes H$, called the wreath product, thanks to which…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Ramón González Rodríguez

We give a definition of weak morphism of $T$-algebras, for a $2$-monad $T$, with respect to an arbitrary family $\Omega$ of $2$-cells of the base $2$-category. By considering particular choices of $\Omega$, we recover the concepts of lax,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Martin Szyld

Abstract inner automorphisms can be used to promote any category into a 2-category, and we study two-dimensional limits and colimits in the resulting 2-categories. Existing connected colimits and limits in the starting category become…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Pieter Hofstra , Martti Karvonen

We study power-set operations on classes of trees and tree algebras. Our main result consists of a distributive law between the tree monad and the upwards-closed power-set monad, in the case where all trees are assumed to be linear. For…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Achim Blumensath

The aim of the paper is to build a connection between two approaches towards categorical language theory: the coalgebraic and algebraic language theory for monads. For a pair of monads modelling the branching and the linear type we defined…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Tomasz Brengos , Marco Peressotti

We show that every action operad gives rise to a notion of monoidal category via the categorical version of the Borel construction, embedding action operads into the category of 2-monads on $\mathbf{Cat}$. We characterize those 2-monads in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Nick Gurski

We explain the sense in which a warping on a monoidal category is the same as a pseudomonad on the corresponding one-object bicategory, and we describe extensions of this to the setting of skew monoidal categories: these are a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Stephen Lack , Ross Street

We consider the canonical pseudodistributive law between various free limit completion pseudomonads and the free coproduct completion pseudomonad. When the class of limits includes pullbacks, we show that this consideration leads to notions…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Fernando Lucatelli Nunes , Rui Prezado , Matthijs Vákár