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We study the interaction between the notions of filteredness, fractions and fibrations in the theory of bicategories, generalizing classical results for categories. We give an explicit formula for filtered pseudo-colimits of categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-02 P. Bustillo Vazquez , D. Pronk , M. Szyld

Linearly distributive categories (LDC), introduced by Cockett and Seely to model multiplicative linear logic, are categories equipped with two monoidal structures that interact via linear distributivities. A seminal result in monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Rose Kudzman-Blais

When a category is equipped with a 2-cell structure it becomes a sesquicategory but not necessarily a 2-category. It is widely accepted that the latter property is equivalent to the middle interchange law. However, little attention has been…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Nelson Martins-Ferreira

This is a condensed overview of the formal theory of monads in a 2-category. We also define two double categories of monads in a 2-category, extending Lack and Street's 2-categories of monads.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Aaron David Fairbanks

We show that the category of corings over a fixed base ring with local units is equivalent to the category of comonads in (right) unital modules whose underlying functors preserve inductive limits. Changing base rings, we prove a…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2009-04-27 L. El Kaoutit

This paper adresses two issues in dealing with bicategories of fractions. The first is to introduce a set of conditions on a class of arrows in a bicategory which is weaker than the one given in Pronk, Etendues and stacks as bicategories of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Dorette Pronk , Laura Scull

For a modular lattice $L$ of finite length, we prove that the distributivity of $L$ is a sufficient condition while its 2-distributivity is a necessary condition that those sublattices of $L$ that are closed under taking relative…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Gábor Czédli

This paper shows how internal models for polymorphic lambda calculi arise in any 2-category with a notion of discreteness. We generalise to a 2-categorical setting the famous theorem of Peter Freyd saying that there are no sufficiently…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-16 Michal R. Przybylek

The notion of the center of an algebra over a field k has a far reaching generalization to algebras in monoidal categories. The center then lives in the monoidal center of the original category. This generalization plays an important role…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Alexei Davydov , Liang Kong , Ingo Runkel

Coherence theorems are fundamental to how we think about monoidal categories and their generalizations. In this paper we revisit Mac Lane's original proof of coherence for monoidal categories using the Grothendieck construction. This…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Cary Malkiewich , Kate Ponto

We introduce a notion of (co)presheaf on a lax double functor $X$, which we generally call an instance. In the terminology of double-categorical logic, a lax double functor valued in sets, possibly preserving finite products, is called a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Kevin Carlson , Evan Patterson

In order to classify concordance classes of codimension 2 embeddings in a manifold M, we need to determine the complement of such an embedding. These complements are spaces over M well defined up to some homology equivalence. We construct a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Pierre Vogel

We provide a calculus of mates for functors to the $\infty$-category of $\infty$-categories and extend Lurie's unstraightening equivalences to show that (op)lax natural transformations correspond to maps of (co)cartesian fibrations that do…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Rune Haugseng , Fabian Hebestreit , Sil Linskens , Joost Nuiten

Logics closed under classes of substitutions broader than class of uniform substitutions are known as hyperformal logics. This paper extends known results about hyperformal logics in two ways. First: we examine a very powerful form of…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Shay Allen Logan , Blane Worley

For a (co)monad T_l on a category M, an object X in M, and a functor \Pi: M \to C, there is a (co)simplex Z^*:=\Pi T_l^{* +1} X in C. Our aim is to find criteria for para-(co)cyclicity of Z^*. Construction is built on a distributive law of…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2012-01-27 Gabriella Böhm , Dragos Stefan

A compact closed bicategory is a symmetric monoidal bicategory where every object is equipped with a weak dual. The unit and counit satisfy the usual "zig-zag" identities of a compact closed category only up to natural isomorphism, and the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Michael Stay

We provide a bicategorical generalization of Barr's landmark 1970 paper, in which he describes how to extend Set-monads to relations and uses this to characterize topological spaces as the relational algebras of the ultrafilter monad. With…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Quentin Aristote , Umberto Tarantino

Notions of generalized multicategory have been defined in numerous contexts throughout the literature, and include such diverse examples as symmetric multicategories, globular operads, Lawvere theories, and topological spaces. In each case,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-01 G. S. H. Cruttwell , Michael A. Shulman

We introduce the notion of a relative pseudomonad, which generalises the notion of a pseudomonad, and define the Kleisli bicategory associated to a relative pseudomonad. We then present an efficient method to define pseudomonas on the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Marcelo Fiore , Nicola Gambino , Martin Hyland , Glynn Winskel

The normal form theorem, proved in R. Laver, On the left distributive law and the freeness of an algebra of elementary embeddings, Advances in Mathematics 91 (1992), 209-231, for the free algebra $\Cal A$ on one generator $x$ satisfying the…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Richard Laver