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This article introduces Hilbert $*$-categories: an abstraction of categories with similar algebraic and analytic properties to the categories of real, complex, and quaternionic Hilbert spaces and bounded linear maps. Other examples include…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Matthew Di Meglio , Chris Heunen

The study of open quantum systems relies on the notion of unital completely positive semigroups on $C^*$-algebras representing physical systems. The natural generalisation would be to consider the unital completely positive semigroups on…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2022-11-15 V. I. Yashin

In this partly expository paper we compare three different categories of C*-algebras in which crossed-product duality can be formulated, both for actions and for coactions of locally compact groups. In these categories, the isomorphisms…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-03-16 S. Kaliszewski , Tron Omland , John Quigg

A 2-group is a "categorified" version of a group, in which the underlying set G has been replaced by a category and the multiplication map has been replaced by a functor. Various versions of this notion have already been explored; our goal…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John C. Baez , Aaron D. Lauda

We define a broad class of crossed product C*-algebras of the form C(G)xG, where G is a discrete countable amenable residually finite group, and G is a profinite completion of G. We show that they are unital separable simple nuclear…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Stefanos Orfanos

Motivated by classical facts concerning closed manifolds, we introduce a strong finiteness property in K-homology. We say that a C*-algebra has uniformly summable K-homology if all its K-homology classes can be represented by Fredholm…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Heath Emerson , Bogdan Nica

We study the general structure of 2-C*-categories closed under conjugation, projections and direct sums. We do not assume units to be simple, i.e. for i_A the 1-unit corresponding to an object A, the space Hom(i_A, i_A) is a commutative…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pasquale A. Zito

We consider the functor C that to a unital C*-algebra A assigns the partial order set C(A) of its commutative C*-subalgebras ordered by inclusion. We investigate how some C*-algebraic properties translate under the action of C to…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Bert Lindenhovius

We study the monoidal dagger category of Hilbert C*-modules over a commutative C*-algebra from the perspective of categorical quantum mechanics. The dual objects are the finitely presented projective Hilbert C*-modules. Special dagger…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Chris Heunen , Manuel L. Reyes

We review the notions of a multiplier category and the $W^{*}$-envelope of a $C^{*}$-category. We then consider the notion of an orthogonal sum of a (possibly infinite) family of objects in a $C^{*}$-category. Furthermore, we construct…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Ulrich Bunke , Alexander Engel

S. L. Woronowicz's theory of introducing C*-algebras generated by unbounded elements is applied to q-normal operators satisfying the defining relation of the quantum complex plane. The unique non-degenerate C*-algebra of bounded operators…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Ismael Cohen , Elmar Wagner

The tensor functor called $\alpha$-induction produces a new unitary fusion category from a Frobenius algebra, or a $Q$-system, in a braided unitary fusion category. A bi-unitary connection, which is a finite family of complex number subject…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi

We prove a number of results having to do with equipping type-I $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebras with compact quantum group structures, the two main ones being that such a compact quantum group is necessarily co-amenable, and that if the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Alexandru Chirvasitu , Jacek Krajczok , Piotr M. Sołtan

We establish the dual equivalence of the category of (potentially nonunital) operator systems and the category of pointed compact nc (noncommutative) convex sets, extending a result of Davidson and the first author. We then apply this dual…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Matthew Kennedy , Se-Jin Kim , Nicholas Manor

The category of I-spaces is the diagram category of spaces indexed by finite sets and injections. This is a symmetric monoidal category whose commutative monoids model all E-infinity spaces. Working in the category of I-spaces enables us to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Steffen Sagave , Christian Schlichtkrull

We undertake a systematic study of the so-called $2$-adic ring $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{Q}_2$. This is the universal $C^*$-algebra generated by a unitary $U$ and an isometry $S_2$ such that $S_2U=U^2S_2$ and $S_2S_2^*+US_2S_2^*U^*=1$.…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Valeriano Aiello , Roberto Conti , Stefano Rossi

Motivated by the work of Goswami on quantum isometry groups of noncommutative manifolds we define the quantum symmetry group of a unital C*-algebra A equipped with an orthogonal filtration as the universal object in the category of compact…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Teodor Banica , Adam Skalski

Our subject is that of categories, functors and distributors enriched in a base quantaloid Q. We show how cocomplete Q-categories are precisely those which are tensored and conically cocomplete, or alternatively, those which are tensored,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Isar Stubbe

We revise the construction of the augmented Cuntz semigroup functor used by the first author to classify inductive limits of 1-dimensional noncommutative CW complexes. The original construction has good functorial properties when restricted…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Leonel Robert , Luis Santiago

A 2-group is a `categorified' version of a group, in which the underlying set G has been replaced by a category and the multiplication map m: G x G -> G has been replaced by a functor. A number of precise definitions of this notion have…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aaron D. Lauda