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We observe that the existence of sequential and parallel composition supermaps in higher order theories of transformations can be formalised using enriched category theory. Encouraged by relevant examples such as unitary supermaps and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Matt Wilson , Giulio Chiribella

Our main result states that for each finite complex L the category ${\bf TOP}$ of topological spaces possesses a model category structure (in the sense of Quillen) whose weak equivalences are precisely maps which induce isomorphisms of all…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Chigogidze , A. Karasev

Current continuous generative models (e.g., Diffusion Models, Flow Matching) implicitly assume that locally consistent causal mechanisms naturally yield globally coherent counterfactuals. In this paper, we prove that this assumption fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Rui Wu , Hong Xie , Yongjun Li

Broadly speaking the present is a homotopy complement to the book of Giraud, albeit in a couple of different ways. In the first place there is a representability theorem for maps to a topological champ (a.k.a. stack) and whence an extremely…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Michael McQuillan

We investigate Grothendieck topologies (in the sense of sheaf theory) on a poset $\P$ that are generated by some subset of $\P$. We show that such Grothendieck topologies exhaust all possibilities if and only if $\P$ is Artinian. If $\P$ is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-04 Bert Lindenhovius

Knowledge graph embedding involves learning representations of entities -- the vertices of the graph -- and relations -- the edges of the graph -- such that the resulting representations encode the known factual information represented by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Thomas Gebhart , Jakob Hansen , Paul Schrater

We introduce a sheaf-theoretic characterization of task solvability in general distributed computing models, unifying distinct approaches to message-passing models. We establish cellular sheaves as a natural mathematical framework for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Stephan Felber , Bernardo Hummes Flores , Hugo Rincon Galeana

Consider a finite, regular cover $Y\to X$ of finite graphs, with associated deck group $G$. We relate the topology of the cover to the structure of $H_1(Y;\mathbb{C})$ as a $G$-representation. A central object in this study is the {\em…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Benson Farb , Sebastian Hensel

After a somewhat rocky start, geometry and topology have established a foothold in machine learning. Message passing, either on graphs or higher-order complexes, is one of the main drivers of geometric deep learning, and paradigms that were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bastian Rieck

What is a time-varying graph, a time-varying topological space, or, more generally, a mathematical structure that evolves over time? In this work, we lay the foundations for a general theory of temporal data by introducing categories of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , James Fairbanks , Martti Karvonen , Wilmer Leal , Frédéric Simard

Cosheaves are a dual notion of sheaves. In this paper, we prove existence of a dual of sheafifications, called \textit{cosheafifications}, in the $\infty$-category theory. We also prove that the $\infty$-category of $\infty$-cosheaves is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Yuri Shimizu

In this paper we study a model of intuitionistic higher-order logic which we call \emph{the Muchnik topos}. The Muchnik topos may be defined briefly as the category of sheaves of sets over the topological space consisting of the Turing…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Sankha S. Basu , Stephen G. Simpson

In this paper, we give lower bounds for the homology of the fibers of a map to a manifold. Using new sheaf theoretic methods, we show that these lower bounds persist over whole open sets of the manifold, and that they are stable under…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Robert MacPherson , Amit Patel

A generalized topology in a set $X$ is a collection $\text{Cov}_X$ of families of subsets of $X$ such that the triple $(X,\bigcup \text{Cov}_X,\text{Cov}_X)$ is a generalized topological space in the sense of Delfs and Knebusch. In this…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Artur Piȩkosz , Eliza Wajch

We introduce an original notion of extra-fine sheaf on a topological space, and a variant (hyper-extra-fine) for which \v{C}ech cohomology in strictly positive degree vanishes. We provide a characterization of such sheaves when the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Daniel Bennequin , Olivier Peltre , Grégoire Sergeant-Perthuis , Juan Pablo Vigneaux

This is the first in a series of papers devoted to foundations of topological stacks. We begin developing a homotopy theory for topological stacks along the lines of classical homotopy theory of topological spaces. In this paper we go as…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Behrang Noohi

Since the time when the first optical instruments have been invented, an idea that the visible image of an object under observation depends on tools of observation became commonly assumed in physics. A way to formalize it in mathematics is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-14 S. S. Akbarov

This paper studies the homotopy theory of algebras and homotopy algebras over an operad. It provides an exhaustive description of their higher homotopical properties using the more general notion of morphisms called infinity-morphisms. The…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Bruno Vallette

We generalize fundamental notions of higher algebra, traditionally developed within the $\infty$-category of spectra, to the broader setting of $t$-structured tensor triangulated $\infty$-categories ($ttt$-$\infty$-categories). Under a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Jiacheng Liang

We prove that topological Hochschild homology (THH) arises from a presheaf of circles on a certain combinatorial category, which gives a universal construction of THH for any enriched infinity category. Our results rely crucially on an…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2019-11-05 John D. Berman