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Given two two-dimensional conformal field theories, a domain wall -- or defect line -- between them is called invertible if there is another defect with which it fuses to the identity defect. A defect is called topological if it is…

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We construct a symmetric monoidal closed category of polynomial endofunctors (as objects) and simulation cells (as morphisms). This structure is defined using universal properties without reference to representing polynomial diagrams and is…

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Conformal nets are a mathematical model for conformal field theory, and defects between conformal nets are a model for an interaction or phase transition between two conformal field theories. In the preceding paper of this series, we…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Arthur Bartels , Christopher L. Douglas , André Henriques

Category theory unifies mathematical concepts, aiding comparisons across structures by incorporating objects and morphisms, which capture their interactions. It has influenced areas of computer science such as automata theory, functional…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Nima Rasekh , Niels van der Weide , Benedikt Ahrens , Paige Randall North

We introduce and develop the notion of *displayed categories*. A displayed category over a category C is equivalent to "a category D and functor F : D --> C", but instead of having a single collection of "objects of D" with a map to the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Benedikt Ahrens , Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine

Recently, there has been renewed interest in the theory and applications of de Paiva's dialectica categories and their relationship to the category of polynomial functors. Both fall under the theory of generalized polynomial categories,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Joseph Dorta , Samantha Jarvis , Nelson Niu

This is a collection of introductory, expository notes on applied category theory, inspired by the 2018 Applied Category Theory Workshop, and in these notes we take a leisurely stroll through two themes (functorial semantics and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Tai-Danae Bradley

This document is centered around a main idea: simplicial categories, by which we mean simplicial objects in the category of categories, can be treated as a two-fold categorical structure and their double category theory is homotopically…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Redi , Haderi

Many systems of interest in science and engineering are made up of interacting subsystems. These subsystems, in turn, could be made up of collections of smaller interacting subsystems and so on. In a series of papers David Spivak with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Eugene Lerman

(Pseudo) double categories have two sorts of morphisms: tight ones which compose strictly, and loose ones which compose up to coherent isomorphism. In this paper, we consider bimodules between double categories in the loose direction. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Jason Brown , Kevin Carlson , Sophie Libkind , David Jaz Myers

Given an additive equational category with a closed symmetric monoidal structure and a potential dualizing object, we find sufficient conditions that the category of topological objects over that category has a good notion of full…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Michael Barr

Directed containers make explicit the additional structure of those containers whose set functor interpretation carries a comonad structure. The data and laws of a directed container resemble those of a monoid, while the data and laws of a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Danel Ahman , Tarmo Uustalu

Category theory is a branch of mathematics that provides a formal framework for understanding the relationship between mathematical structures. To this end, a category not only incorporates the data of the desired objects, but also…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Niels van der Weide , Nima Rasekh , Benedikt Ahrens , Paige Randall North

We introduce a graphical language for closed symmetric monoidal categories based on an extension of string diagrams with special bracket wires representing internal homs. These bracket wires make the structure of the internal hom functor…

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It is shown how double categories provide a direct abstract approach to coloured operads; namely, product-preserving normal lax functors from (Pb C)^op (the opposite of the double category of pullback squares in C) to Cat (the double…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Claudio Pisani

In this paper we present cartesian structure for symmetric Gray-monoidal double categories. To do this we first introduce locally cubical Gray categories, which are three-dimensional categorical structures analogous to classical, locally…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Edward Morehouse

This is the first of a pair of papers where we construct and investigate a closed monoidal structure on the category of generalized algebraic theories (in the sense of Cartmell). In the present text, as a starting point, we define the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Daniel Almeida

There is a lack of formalism for some key foundational concepts in systems engineering. One of the most recently acknowledged deficits is the inadequacy of systems engineering practices for engineering intelligent systems. In our previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-21 Niloofar Shadab , Tyler Cody , Alejandro Salado , Peter Beling

Expansion of the categorical point of view on many areas of the mathematics and mathematical physics will cause to deeper understanding of genuine features of these problems. New applications of categorical methods are connected with new…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-03 S. S. Moskaliuk , A. T. Vlassov

The purpose of this foundational paper is to introduce various notions and constructions in order to develop the homotopy theory for differential graded operads over any ring. The main new idea is to consider the action of the symmetric…

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