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In this paper we investigate the categories of braided objects, algebras and bialgebras in a given monoidal category, some pairs of adjoint functors between them and their relations. In particular we construct a braided primitive functor…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Alessandro Ardizzoni , Claudia Menini

In this paper we present cartesian structure for symmetric Gray-monoidal double categories. To do this we first introduce locally cubical Gray categories, which are three-dimensional categorical structures analogous to classical, locally…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Edward Morehouse

We identify natural symmetries of each rigid higher braided category. Specifically, we construct a functorial action by the continuous group $\Omega \mathsf{O}(n)$ on each $\mathcal{E}_{n-1}$-monoidal $(g,d)$-category $\mathcal{R}$ in which…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-11 David Ayala , John Francis

Equivariant monoids are very important objects in many branches of mathematics: they combine the notion of multiplication and the concept of a group action. In this paper we will construct categories which encode the structure borne by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Daniel Graves

We show that some recent constructions in the literature, named `weak' generalizations, can be systematically treated by passing from 2-categories to categories enriched in the Cartesian monoidal category of Cauchy complete categories.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Gabriella Böhm , Stephen Lack , Ross Street

To characterize categorical constraints - associativity, commutativity and monoidality - in the context of quasimonoidal categories, from a cohomological point of view, we define the notion of a parity (quasi)complex. Applied to groups…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lucian M. Ionescu

Layered monoidal theories provide a categorical framework for studying scientific theories at different levels of abstraction, via string diagrammatic algebra. We introduce models for three closely related classes of layered monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Leo Lobski , Fabio Zanasi

One goal of applied category theory is to better understand networks appearing throughout science and engineering. Here we introduce "structured cospans" as a way to study networks with inputs and outputs. Given a functor $L \colon…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-11 John C. Baez , Kenny Courser

A braided monoidal category may be considered a $3$-category with one object and one $1$-morphism. In this paper, we show that, more generally, $3$-categories with one object and $1$-morphisms given by elements of a group $G$ correspond to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Corey Jones , David Penneys , David Reutter

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 this paper we introduce the notion of a categorical Mackey functor. This categorical notion allows us to obtain new Mackey functors by passing to Quillen's $K$-theory of the corresponding abelian categories. In the case of an action by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Sebastian Burciu

Let $(H,\a_H)$ be a Hom-Hopf algebra, $(A,\a_A)$ a right $H$-comodule algebra and $(C,\a_C)$ a left $H$-module coalgebra. Then we have the category $_A\mathcal{M}(H)^C$ of Hom-type Doi-Hopf modules. The aim of this paper is to make the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Daowei Lu

Heisenberg categories act on many Abelian categories appearing in type A representation theory. There is also a general procedure to construct from a Heisenberg action another action of a Kac-Moody 2-category for some associated Cartan…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Jonathan Brundan , Alistair Savage , Ben Webster

Given an algebraic theory which can be described by a (possibly symmetric) operad $P$, we propose a definition of the \emph{weakening} (or \emph{categorification}) of the theory, in which equations that hold strictly for $P$-algebras hold…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-02-05 M. R. Gould

We introduce homotopical methods based on rewriting on higher-dimensional categories to prove coherence results in categories with an algebraic structure. We express the coherence problem for (symmetric) monoidal categories as an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Yves Guiraud , Philippe Malbos

Restriction categories were established to handle maps that are partially defined with respect to composition. Tensor topology realises that monoidal categories have an intrinsic notion of space, and deals with objects and maps that are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-11 C. Heunen , J. S. Pacaud Lemay

We introduce the notion of symplectic microfolds and symplectic micromorphisms between them. They form a monoidal category, which is a version of the "category" of symplectic manifolds and canonical relations obtained by localizing them…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Alberto S. Cattaneo , Benoit Dherin , Alan Weinstein

Categorical structures and their pseudomaps rarely form locally presentable 2-categories in the sense of Cat-enriched category theory. However, we show that if the categorical structure in question is sufficiently weak (such as the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 John Bourke

Differential categories were introduced to provide a minimal categorical doctrine for differential linear logic. Here we revisit the formalism and, in particular, examine the two different approaches to defining differentiation which were…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-08 R. F. Blute , J. R. B. Cockett , J-S. Pacaud Lemay , R. A. G. Seely

This paper considers the possible underlying multicategories for a symmetric monoidal category, and shows that, up to canonical and coherent isomorphism, there really is only one. As a result, there is a well-defined forgetful functor from…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 A. D. Elmendorf