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Notions of guardedness serve to delineate the admissibility of cycles, e.g. in recursion, corecursion, iteration, or tracing. We introduce an abstract notion of guardedness structure on a symmetric monoidal category, along with a…

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We ascertain conditions and structures on categories and semigroups which admit the construction of pseudo-products and trace products respectively, making their connection as precise as possible. This topic is modelled on the ESN Theorem…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-10-14 D. G. FitzGerald , M. K. Kinyon

Traced monoidal categories are used to model processes that can feed their outputs back to their own inputs, abstracting iteration. The category of finite dimensional Hilbert spaces with the direct sum tensor is not traced. But…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Aaron David Fairbanks , Peter Selinger

This paper deals with questions relating to Haghverdi and Scott's notion of partially traced categories. The main result is a representation theorem for such categories: we prove that every partially traced category can be faithfully…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Octavio Malherbe , Philip J. Scott , Peter Selinger

The category-valued trace assigns to a bimodule category over a linear monoidal category a linear category. It generalizes Drinfeld centers of monoidal categories and the relative Deligne product of bimodule categories. In this article, we…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Vincent Koppen

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

We study the classification of submodules of module categories over monoidal categories, extending ideas of Coulembier on the classification of tensor ideals in monoidal categories. We develop a framework that applies to module categories…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Hadi Salmasian , Alistair Savage , Yaolong Shen

We study monoidal profunctors as a tool to reason and structure pure functional programs both from a categorical perspective and as a Haskell implementation. From the categorical point of view we approach them as monoids in a certain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Alexandre Garcia de Oliveira , Mauro Jaskelioff , Ana Cristina Vieira de Melo

We study two kinds of categorical traces of (monoidal) dg categories, with particular interest in categories of Soergel bimodules. First, we explicitly compute the usual Hochschild homology, or derived vertical trace, of the category of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Eugene Gorsky , Matthew Hogancamp , Paul Wedrich

Grothendieck's theory of fibred categories establishes an equivalence between fibred categories and pseudo functors. It plays a major role in algebraic geometry and categorical logic. This paper aims to show that fibrations are also very…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Ilia Pirashvili

This paper introduces the concept of distorted monoidal categories, a generalization of monoidal and braided monoidal categories that supports non-reversible and direction-sensitive tensor structures. Unlike the classical setting, where the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Joaquim Reizi Higuchi

Let $\mathcal{S}$ be a small category, and suppose that we are given a full subcategory $\mathcal{U}$ such that every object of $\mathcal{S}$ can be embedded into some object of $\mathcal{U}$ in the same way as every quasi-projective…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Luca Terenzi

Multiplier bimonoids (or bialgebras) in arbitrary braided monoidal categories are defined. They are shown to possess monoidal categories of comodules and modules. These facts are explained by the structures carried by their induced…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Gabriella Böhm , Stephen Lack

Usually a name of the category is inherited from the name of objects. However more relevant for a category of objects and morphisms is an algebra of morphisms. Therefore we prefer to say a category of graphs if every morphism is a graph. In…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-03-29 Maria Ernestina Chavez Rodriguez , Zbigniew Oziewicz

Szlach\'anyi's skew monoidal categories are a well-motivated variation of monoidal categories in which the unitors and associator are not required to be natural isomorphisms, but merely natural transformations in a particular direction. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Tarmo Uustalu , Niccolò Veltri , Noam Zeilberger

We consider traces on module categories over pivotal fusion categories which are compatible with the module structure. It is shown that such module traces characterise the Morita classes of special haploid symmetric Frobenius algebras.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Gregor Schaumann

In this article we investigate which categorical structures of a category C are inherited by its arrow category. In particular, we show that a monoidal equivalence between two categories gives rise to a monoidal equivalence between their…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Paulina L. A. Goedicke , Jamie Vicary

We present Trimble's definition of a tetracategory and prove that the spans in (strict) 2-categories with certain limits have the structure of a monoidal tricategory, defined as a one-object tetracategory. We recall some notions of limits…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Alexander E. Hoffnung

We present a method of constructing monoidal, braided monoidal, and symmetric monoidal bicategories from corresponding types of monoidal double categories that satisfy a lifting condition. Many important monoidal bicategories arise…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Linde Wester Hansen , Michael Shulman

This paper is about skew monoidal tensored V-categories (= skew monoidal hommed V-actegories) and their categories of modules. A module over <M,*,R> is an algebra for the monad T = R * _ on M. We study in detail the skew monoidal structure…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-30 K. Szlachanyi