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Bidirectional data accessors such as lenses, prisms and traversals are all instances of the same general 'optic' construction. We give a careful account of this construction and show that it extends to a functor from the category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Mitchell Riley

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 a functorial construction which, from a monoid, produces a set-operad. We obtain new (symmetric or not) operads as suboperads or quotients of the operad obtained from the additive monoid. These involve various familiar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Samuele Giraudo

We construct various multiple categories, based on generalised Ehresmann quintets. The main construction is a multiple category whose objects are all the `lax' multiple categories; the transversal arrows are their strict multiple functors…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Marco Grandis , Robert Paré

Motivated by the challenge of defining twisted quantum field theories in the context of higher categories, we develop a general framework for lax and oplax transformations and their higher analogs between strong $(\infty, n)$-functors. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Theo Johnson-Freyd , Claudia Scheimbauer

In this paper we introduce the notion of an operator category and two different models for homotopy theory of $\infty$-operads over an operator category -- one of which extends Lurie's theory of $\infty$-operads, the other of which is…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-18 C. Barwick

The category of (colored) props is an enhancement of the category of colored operads, and thus of the category of small categories. In this paper, the second in a series on "higher props," we show that the category of all small colored…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Philip Hackney , Marcy Robertson

We show that the sets of $d$-dimensional Latin hypercubes over a non-empty set $X$, with $d$ running over the positive integers, determine an operad which is isomorphic to a sub-operad of the endomorphism operad of $X$. We generalise this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Markus Linckelmann

A general notion of operad is given, which includes as instances, the operads originally conceived to study loop spaces, as well as the higher operads that arise in the globular approach to higher dimensional algebra. In the framework of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Weber

We develop further the theory of operads and analytic functors. In particular, we introduce a bicategory that has operads as 0-cells, operad bimodules as 1-cells and operad bimodule maps as 2-cells, and prove that this bicategory is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Nicola Gambino , André Joyal

Simple optics are defined using actions of monoidal categories. Compound optics arise, for instance, as natural transformations between polynomial functors. Since a monoidal category is a special case of a bicategory, we formulate complex…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Bartosz Milewski

We establish a duality between monads and monadic morphisms in any $(\infty,2)$-category and characterize monadic morphisms in a wide class of examples. This duality unifies several dualities between algebraic structures and their…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hadrian Heine

The purpose of this paper is to study the derived category of simplicial multicategories with arbitrary sets of objects (also known as, colored operads in simplicial sets). Our main result is a derived Morita theory for operads-where we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-11-17 Marcy Robertson

Let $\Bbbk$ be a commutative ring and $I$ a category. As a generalization of a $\Bbbk$-category with a (pseudo) action of a group we consider a family of $\Bbbk$-categories with a (pseudo, lax, or oplax) action of $I$, namely an oplax…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-11 Hideto Asashiba

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. In Part 1 we introduce a new theory of operadic categories and their operads. This theory is, in our opinion, of an independent value. In Part 2 we use this new theory together with our previous…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-07-15 Michael Batanin , Martin Markl

The goal of the paper is to establish and to investigate a fully faithful embedding of the category of group operads into that of crossed interval groups. For this, we introduce a monoidal structure on the slice of the category of operads…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Jun Yoshida

In this paper we show that the Day monoidal product generalises in a straightforward way to other algebraic constructions and partial algebraic constructions on categories. This generalisation was motivated by its applications in logic, for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Edmund Robinson , Joshua Wrigley

We show how the categorial approach to inverse monoids can be described as a certain endofunctor (which we call the partialization functor) of some category. In this paper we show that this functor can be used to obtain several recently…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-02 Ganna Kudryavtseva , Volodymyr Mazorchuk

The goal of the present paper is to compare, in a precise way, two notions of operads up to homotopy which appear in the literature. Namely, we construct a functor from the category of strict unital homotopy colored operads to the category…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Brice Le Grignou

We discuss what it means for a symmetric monoidal category to be a module over a commutative semiring category. Each of the categories of (1) cartesian monoidal categories, (2) semiadditive categories, and (3) connective spectra can be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-29 John D. Berman