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We present the first definition of strictly associative and unital $\infty$-category. Our proposal takes the form of a type theory whose terms describe the operations of such structures, and whose definitional equality relation enforces…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Eric Finster , Alex Rice , Jamie Vicary

Invited contribution to the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics. We give an introduction to the homotopical theory of higher categories, focused on motivating the definitions of the basic objects, namely $\infty$-categories and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Rune Haugseng

Simplicial type theory (STT) was introduced by Riehl and Shulman to leverage homotopy type theory to prove results about $(\infty,1)$-categories. Initial work on simplicial type theory focused on "formal" arguments in higher category theory…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Daniel Gratzer , Jonathan Weinberger , Ulrik Buchholtz

These are notes from an informal mini-course on factorization homology, infinity-categories, and topological field theories. The target audience was imagined to be graduate students who are not homotopy theorists.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Araminta Amabel , Artem Kalmykov , Lukas Müller , Hiro Lee Tanaka

Category theory in homotopy type theory is intricate as categorical laws can only be stated "up to homotopy", and thus require coherences. The established notion of a univalent category (Ahrens, Kapulkin, Shulman) solves this by considering…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Paolo Capriotti , Nicolai Kraus

An $\infty$-cosmos is a setting in which to develop the formal category theory of $(\infty,1)$-categories. In this paper, we explore a few atypical examples of $\infty$-cosmoi whose objects are 2-categories or bicategories rather than…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Emily Riehl , Mira Wattal

We introduce $\infty$-type theories as an $\infty$-categorical generalization of the categorical definition of type theories introduced by the second named author. We establish analogous results to the previous work including the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Hoang Kim Nguyen , Taichi Uemura

Derivators, introduced independently by Grothendieck and Heller in the 1980s, provide a categorical framework for studying homotopy theory. They are based on the idea that, while the homotopy 1-category of a single model category or…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Nicola Di Vittorio

We prove that the homotopy theory of monoidal relative categories is equivalent to that of monoidal $\infty$-categories, and likewise in the symmetric monoidal setting. As an application, we give a concise and complete proof of the fact…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Kensuke Arakawa

We generalize proarrow equipments from strict category theory to the $\infty$-categorical setting, introducing the concept of $\infty$-equipments. These are specific double $\infty$-categories that support an internal higher category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Jaco Ruit

Univalence was first defined in the setting of homotopy type theory by Voevodsky, who also (along with Kapulkin and Lumsdaine) adapted it to a model categorical setting, which was subsequently generalized to locally Cartesian closed…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Nima Rasekh

This is an introductory textbook to univalent mathematics and homotopy type theory, a mathematical foundation that takes advantage of the structural nature of mathematical definitions and constructions. It is common in mathematical practice…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Egbert Rijke

Category theory provides a means through which many far-ranging fields of mathematics can be related by their similar structure. In a paper by Robinson [2], this interconnectivity afforded by categorical perspectives allowed for the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Karthik Boyareddygari

We generalise to a group homomorphism $\tau$ the $\chi$-graded categories of S\"{o}zer and Virelizier. These are categories in which both morphisms and objects have compatible degrees. We give a 'half-enriched' Yoneda lemma, a structure…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Jonathan Davies

Reasoning about weak higher categorical structures constitutes a challenging task, even to the experts. One principal reason is that the language of set theory is not invariant under the weaker notions of equivalence at play, such as…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jonathan Weinberger

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

By homotopy linear algebra we mean the study of linear functors between slices of the $\infty$-category of $\infty$-groupoids, subject to certain finiteness conditions. After some standard definitions and results, we assemble said slices…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Imma Gálvez-Carrillo , Joachim Kock , Andrew Tonks

In this article, we interconnect two different aspects of higher category theory, in one hand the theory of infinity categories and on an other hand the theory of 2-categories.We construct an explicit functorial path objet in the model…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Ilias Amrani

In this paper, we define indexed type theories which are related to indexed ($\infty$-)categories in the same way as (homotopy) type theories are related to ($\infty$-)categories. We define several standard constructions for such theories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Valery Isaev

The intended model of the homotopy type theories used in Univalent Foundations is the infinity-category of homotopy types, also known as infinity-groupoids. The problem of higher structures is that of constructing the homotopy types needed…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Ulrik Buchholtz