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Questions of set-theoretic size play an essential role in category theory, especially the distinction between sets and proper classes (or small sets and large sets). There are many different ways to formalize this, and which choice is made…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-08 Michael A. Shulman

Algebraic theories with dependency between sorts form the structural core of Martin-L\"of type theory and similar systems. Their denotational semantics are typically studied using categorical techniques; many different categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benedikt Ahrens , Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine , Paige Randall North

In this paper, we analyze and compare three of the many algebraic structures that have been used for modeling dependent type theories: categories with families, split type-categories, and representable maps of presheaves. We study these in…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Benedikt Ahrens , Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine , Vladimir Voevodsky

We present an abstract, categorical formulation of dependent functions in a fundamental manner and independently from the Sigma-construction. For that, we define first the notion of a category with family-arrows, or a $\f$-category. A $(\f,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Iosif Petrakis

The question "What is category theory" is approached by focusing on universal mapping properties and adjoint functors. Category theory organizes mathematics using morphisms that transmit structure and determination. Structures of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Ellerman

The ability to cast values between related types is a leitmotiv of many flavors of dependent type theory, such as observational type theories, subtyping, or cast calculi for gradual typing. These casts all exhibit a common structural…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Arthur Adjedj , Meven Lennon-Bertrand , Thibaut Benjamin , Kenji Maillard

A certain amount of category theory is developed in an arbitrary finitely complete category with a factorization system on it, playing the role of the comprehensive factorization system on Cat. Those aspects related to the concepts of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-07 Claudio Pisani

The basic concepts of category theory are developed and examples of them are presented to illustrate them using measurement theory and probability theory tools. Motivated by Perrone's workarXiv:1912.10642 where notes on category theory are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Gabriel Granda , Miguel Flores

Category theory is the language of homological algebra, allowing us to state broadly applicable theorems and results without needing to specify the details for every instance of analogous objects. However, authors often stray from the realm…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Skyler Marks

Lenses, optics and dependent lenses (or equivalently morphisms of containers, or equivalently natural transformations of polynomial functors) are all widely used in applied category theory as models of bidirectional processes. From the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Dylan Braithwaite , Matteo Capucci , Bruno Gavranović , Jules Hedges , Eigil Fjeldgren Rischel

Classification theory of elementary classes deals with first order (elementary) classes of structures (i.e. fixing a set T of first order sentences, we investigate the class of models of T with the elementary submodel notion). It tries to…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-03-23 Saharon Shelah

This the first of a series of articles dealing with abstract classification theory. The apparatus to assign systems of cardinal invariants to models of a first order theory (or determine its impossibility) is developed in [Sh:a]. It is…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 John T. Baldwin , Saharon Shelah

We begin with a context more general than set theory. The basic ingredients are essentially the object and functor primitives of category theory, and the logic is weak, requiring neither the Law of Excluded Middle nor quantification. Inside…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Frank Quinn

Following the types-as-sets paradigm, we present a mechanized embedding of dependent function types with a hierarchy of universes into schematic first-order logic with equality, with axiom schemas of Tarski-Grothendieck set theory. We carry…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yunsong Yang , Simon Guilloud , Viktor Kunčak

We study the dependent type theory CaTT, introduced by Finster and Mimram, which presents the theory of weak $\omega$-categories, following the idea that type theories can be considered as presentations of generalized algebraic theories.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Thibaut Benjamin , Eric Finster , Samuel Mimram

We develop a categorical framework for reasoning about abstract properties of differentiation, based on the theory of fibrations. Our work encompasses the first-order fragments of several existing categorical structures for differentiation,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Matteo Capucci , Geoffrey S. H. Cruttwell , Neil Ghani , Fabio Zanasi

Written to be contributed as the "mathematical modeling" chapter of a book, edited by Elaine Landry, to be titled "Categories for the Working Philosopher". In this chapter, category theory is presented as a mathematical modeling framework…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 David I. Spivak

In these lecture notes, we give a brief introduction to some elements of category theory. The choice of topics is guided by applications to functional programming. Firstly, we study initial algebras, which provide a mathematical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Benedikt Ahrens , Kobe Wullaert

Native type systems are those in which type constructors are derived from term constructors, as well as the constructors of predicate logic and intuitionistic type theory. We present a method to construct native type systems for a broad…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Christian Williams , Michael Stay

We introduce a dependent type theory whose models are weak {\omega}-categories, generalizing Brunerie's definition of {\omega}-groupoids. Our type theory is based on the definition of {\omega}-categories given by Maltsiniotis, himself…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Eric Finster , Samuel Mimram