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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

Traces in symmetric monoidal categories are well-known and have many applications; for instance, their functoriality directly implies the Lefschetz fixed point theorem. However, for some applications, such as generalizations of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman

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

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 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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Sergey Goncharov , Lutz Schröder

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

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

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

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

As an example of the categorical apparatus of pseudo algebras over 2-theories, we show that pseudo algebras over the 2-theory of categories can be viewed as pseudo double categories with folding or as appropriate 2-functors into…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Thomas M. Fiore

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

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 the biclosedness of the monoidal categories of modules and comodules over a (left or right) Hopf algebroid, along with the bimodule category centres of the respective opposite categories and a corresponding categorical equivalence…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Niels Kowalzig

The category Set_* of sets and partial functions is well-known to be traced monoidal, meaning that a partial function S+U -/-> T+U can be coherently transformed into a partial function S -/-> T. This transformation is generally described in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Kristopher Brown , David I. Spivak

To supplement the already known classification of traces on classical pseudodifferential operators, we present a classification of traces on the algebras of odd-class pseudodifferential operators of non-positive order acting on smooth…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Carolina Neira Jiménez , Marie Françoise Ouedraogo

In this work we develop a discrete trace theory that spans non-conforming hybrid discretization methods and holds on polytopal meshes. A notion of a discrete trace seminorm is defined, and trace and lifting results with respect to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Santiago Badia , Jerome Droniou , Jai Tushar

We denote the monoidal bicategory of two-sided modules (also called profunctors, bimodules and distributors) between categories by $\mathrm{Mod}$; the tensor product is cartesian product of categories. For a groupoid $\scr{G}$, we study the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Branko Nikolić , Ross Street

We consider algebras and Frobenius algebras, internal to a monoidal category, that are graded over a finite abelian group. For the case that A is a twisted group algebra in a linear abelian monoidal category we obtain a graded…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Jürgen Fuchs , Tobias Grøsfjeld

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

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