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In an abelian category, the (bi)fibration of subobjects is isomorphic to the (bi)fibration of quotients. This property captures substantial information about the exactness structure of a category. Indeed, as it was shown by the second…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Elena Caviglia , Zurab Janelidze , Luca Mesiti

The extension of ordinary category theory to $\infty$-categories at the start of the 21st century was a spectacular achievement pioneered by Joyal and Lurie with contributions from many others. Unfortunately, the technical arguments…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Emily Riehl

The notions of conformal Lie 2-algebras and conformal omni-Lie algebras are introduced and studied. It is proved that the category of conformal Lie 2-algebras and the category of 2-term conformal $L_{\infty}$-algebras are equivalent. We…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Tao Zhang

The importance of accessible categories has been widely recognized; they can be described as those freely generated in some precise sense by a small set of objects and, because of that, satisfy many good properties. More specifically…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Stephen Lack , Giacomo Tendas

The definition of an S-category is proposed by weakening the axioms of a Q-category introduced by Kontsevich and Rosenberg. Examples of Q- and S-categories and (co)smooth objects in such categories are given.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-10-31 Tomasz Brzezinski

A group-category is an additively semisimple category with a monoidal product structure in which the simple objects are invertible. For example in the category of representations of a group, 1-dimensional representations are the invertible…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Quinn

This paper provides a blueprint for the construction of a symplectic $(A_\infty,2)$-category, $\mathsf{Symp}$. We develop two ways of encoding the information in $\mathsf{Symp}$ -- one topological, one algebraic. The topological encoding is…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Nathaniel Bottman , Katrin Wehrheim

The notion of pseudocategory, as considered in [11], is extended from the context of a 2-category to the more general one of a sesquicategory, which is considered as a category equipped with a 2-cell structure. Some particular examples of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-21 N. Martins-Ferreira

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

We study 2-monads and their algebras using a Cat-enriched version of Quillen model categories, emphasizing the parallels between the homotopical and 2-categorical points of view. Every 2-category with finite limits and colimits has a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Stephen Lack

We define the notion of 2-filtered 2-category and give an explicit construction of the bicolimit of a category valued 2-functor. A category considered as a trivial 2-category is 2-filtered if and only if it is a filtered category, and our…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Eduardo J. Dubuc , Ross Street

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

A 2-group is a "categorified" version of a group, in which the underlying set G has been replaced by a category and the multiplication map has been replaced by a functor. Various versions of this notion have already been explored; our goal…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John C. Baez , Aaron D. Lauda

This thesis focuses on topics in 2-category theory: in particular on double categories, pseudomonads and codescent objects. In Chapter 2 we recall all the necessary notions. In Chapter 3 we show that factorization systems can be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Miloslav Štěpán

In this short expository note, we discuss, with plenty of examples, the bestiary of fibrations in quasicategory theory. We underscore the simplicity and clarity of the constructions these fibrations make available to end-users of higher…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Clark Barwick , Jay Shah

We define the phrase `category enriched in an fc-multicategory' and explore some examples. An fc-multicategory is a very general kind of 2-dimensional structure, special cases of which are double categories, bicategories, monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Leinster

We classify all 2-term $L_\infty$-algebras up to isomorphism. We show that such $L_\infty$-algebras are classified by a Lie algebra, a vector space, a representation (all up to isomorphism) and a cohomology class of the corresponding Lie…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Kevin S. van Helden

This book is an introduction to 2-categories and bicategories, assuming only the most elementary aspects of category theory. A review of basic category theory is followed by a systematic discussion of 2-/bicategories, pasting diagrams, lax…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Niles Johnson , Donald Yau

We develop a 2-dimensional version of accessibility and presentability compatible with the formalism of flat pseudofunctors. First we give prerequisites on the different notions of 2-dimensional colimits, filteredness and cofinality; in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Ivan Di Liberti , Axel Osmond

Like categories, small 2-categories have well-understood classifying spaces. In this paper, we deal with homotopy types represented by 2-diagrams of 2-categories. Our results extend to homotopy colimits of 2-functors lower categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-24 A. M. Cegarra , B. A. Heredia