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One of possible cryptomorphic definitions of a partially ordered set (= a poset) $P$ on a non-empty finite basic set $N$ is in terms of the set ${\cal L}(P)$ of all its linear extensions, that is, in terms of the set of total orders of $N$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Milan Studený , Václav Kratochvíl

We discuss the cone and contraction theorem in a suitable complex analytic setting. More precisely, we establish the cone and contraction theorem of normal pairs for projective morphisms between complex analytic spaces. This result is a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Osamu Fujino

A pseudomonad on a $2$-category whose underlying endomorphism is a $2$-functor can be seen as a diagram $\mathbf{Psmnd} \rightarrow \mathbf{Gray}$ for which weighted limits and colimits can be considered. The $2$-category of pseudoalgebras,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Adrian Miranda

We study lax functors between bicategories as a generalized concept of monads and describe generalized notions and theorems of formal monad theory for lax functors. Our first approach is to use the 2-monad whose lax algebras are lax…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Kengo Hirata

This paper develops a theory of colimit sketches "with constructions" in higher category theory, formalising the input to the ubiquitous procedure of adjoining specified "constructible" colimits to a category such that specified "relation"…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Andrew W. Macpherson

We define a notion of colimit for diagrams in a motivic category indexed by a presheaf of spaces (e.g. an \'etale classifying space), and we study basic properties of this construction. As a case study, we construct the motivic analogs of…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Tom Bachmann , Elden Elmanto , Jeremiah Heller

The finitistic dimension conjecture asserts that any finite-dimensional algebra over a field should have finite finitistic dimension. Recently, this conjecture is reduced to studying finitistic dimensions for extensions of algebras. In this…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Chengxi Wang , Changchang Xi

Bilinear maps and their classifying tensor products are well-known in the theory of linear algebra, and their generalization to algebras of commutative monads is a classical result of monad theory. Motivated by constructions needed in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Tomáš Jakl , Dan Marsden , Nihil Shah

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

An emerging theory of "linear-algebraic pseudorandomness" aims to understand the linear-algebraic analogs of fundamental Boolean pseudorandom objects where the rank of subspaces plays the role of the size of subsets. In this work, we study…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Michael A. Forbes , Venkatesan Guruswami

We introduce a new family of closed differential forms naturally associated with minimal graphical submanifolds in Euclidean space, defined in arbitrary codimension. For each minimal graph, we construct an explicit closed form whose…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Chung-Jun Tsai , Mu-Tao Wang

Non-trivial extensions of the three dimensional Poincar\'e algebra, beyond the supersymmetric one, are explicitly constructed. These algebraic structures are the natural three dimensional generalizations of fractional supersymmetry of order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rausch de Traubenberg , M. J. Slupinski

The monad of convex sets of probability distributions is a well-known tool for modelling the combination of nondeterministic and probabilistic computational effects. In this work we lift this monad from the category of sets to the category…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Matteo Mio , Valeria Vignudelli

In this article we develop formal category theory within augmented virtual double categories. Notably we formalise the classical notions of Kan extension, Yoneda embedding $\text y_A\colon A \to \hat A$, exact square, total category and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Seerp Roald Koudenburg

This article represents a preliminary attempt to link Kan extensions, and some of their further developments, to Fourier theory and quantum algebra through *-autonomous monoidal categories and related structures.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brian J. Day

We define the notion of an indexed profunctor over a 2-category, and use it to develop an abstract theory of limits. The theory subsumes (conical) limits, weighted limits, ends and Kan extensions. Results include an abstract version of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Sori Lee

It it shown that geometric morphisms between elementary toposes can be represented as adjunctions between the corresponding categories of locales. These adjunctions are characterised as those that preserve the order enrichment, commute with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Christopher Townsend

We introduce pseudoalgebras for relative pseudomonads and develop their theory. For each relative pseudomonad $T$, we construct a free--forgetful relative pseudoadjunction that exhibits the bicategory of $T$-pseudoalgebras as terminal among…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Nathanael Arkor , Philip Saville , Andrew Slattery

For a small category K enriched over a suitable monoidal category V, the free completion of K under colimits is the presheaf category [K*,V]. If K is large, its free completion under colimits is the V-category PK of small presheaves on K,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Brian J. Day , Stephen Lack

Jacobs' hypernormalisation is a construction on finitely supported discrete probability distributions, obtained by generalising certain patterns occurring in quantitative information theory. In this paper, we generalise Jacobs' notion in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Richard Garner