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Originally enriched categories were defined over a monoidal category, but it was gradually realized that important examples can only be included when one enriches over more general structures such as bicategories and virtual double…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Soichiro Fujii , Stephen Lack

The well-known Lawvere category R of extended real positive numbers comes with a monoidal closed structure where the tensor product is the sum. But R has another such structure, given by multiplication, which is *-autonomous. Normed sets,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marco Grandis

We investigate the extent to which the weak equivalences in a model category can be equipped with algebraic structure. We prove, for instance, that there exists a monad T such that a morphism of topological spaces admits T-algebra structure…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 John Bourke

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

Lax monoidal powerset-enriched monads yield a monoidal structure on the category of monoids in the Kleisli category of a monad. Exponentiable objects in this category are identified as those Kleisli monoids with algebraic structure. This…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-08 Dirk Hofmann , Frédéric Mynard , Gavin J. Seal

Let M be a bicomplete, closed symmetric monoidal category. Let P be an operad in M, i.e., a monoid in the category of symmetric sequences of objects in M, with its composition monoidal structure. Let R be a P-co-ring, i.e., a comonoid in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kathryn Hess , Paul-Eugene Parent , Jonathan Scott

We generalize the constructions of [17,19] to layered semirings, in order to enrich the structure and provide finite examples for applications in arithmetic (including finite examples). The layered category theory of [19] is extended…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Zur Izhakian , Manfred Knebusch , Louis Rowen

The monoidal category of Soergel bimodules can be thought of as a categorification of the Hecke algebra of a finite Weyl group. We present this category, when the Weyl group is the symmetric group, in the language of planar diagrams with…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Ben Elias , Mikhail Khovanov

We introduce the notion of a monoidal category enriched in a braided monoidal category $\mathcal V$. We set up the basic theory, and prove a classification result in terms of braided oplax monoidal functors to the Drinfeld center of some…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Scott Morrison , David Penneys

We now have a wide range of proof assistants available for compositional reasoning in monoidal or higher categories which are free on some generating signature. However, none of these allow us to represent categorical operations such as…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Chiara Sarti , Jamie Vicary

This paper has two tightly intertwined aims: (i) To introduce an intuitive and universal graphical calculus for multi-qubit systems, the ZX-calculus, which greatly simplifies derivations in the area of quantum computation and information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Bob Coecke , Ross Duncan

We show that the canonical equivalences of categories between 2-dimensional (unoriented) topological quantum field theories valued in a symmetric monoidal category and (extended) commutative Frobenius algebras in that symmetric monoidal…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Pablo S. Ocal

We define a symmetric monoidal category modelling fuzzy concepts and fuzzy conceptual reasoning within G\"ardenfors' framework of conceptual (convex) spaces. We propose log-concave functions as models of fuzzy concepts, showing that these…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Sean Tull

We establish a highly flexible condition that guarantees that all colored symmetric operads in a symmetric monoidal model category are admissible, i.e., the category of algebras over any operad admits a model structure transferred from the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Dmitri Pavlov , Jakob Scholbach

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 study Kan extensions in three weakenings of the Eilenberg-Moore double category associated to a double monad, that was introduced by Grandis and Par\'e. To be precise, given a normal oplax double monad $T$ on a double category $\mathcal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Seerp Roald Koudenburg

Joyal and Street note in their paper on braided monoidal categories [Braided tensor categories, Advances in Math. 102(1993) 20-78] that the 2-category V-Cat of categories enriched over a braided monoidal category V is not itself braided in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Stefan Forcey

Presentations of categories are a well-known algebraic tool to provide descriptions of categories by means of generators, for objects and morphisms, and relations on morphisms. We generalize here this notion, in order to consider situations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Pierre-Louis Curien , Samuel Mimram

Symmetric monoidal categories (SMCs) are a common framework for reasoning about computation, focusing on the parallel and sequential compositionality of operations. String diagrams are a ubiquitous and powerful tool for reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Benjamin Caldwell , William Spencer , Aleks Kissinger , Robert Rand

It is well known that braided monoidal categories are the categorical algebras of the little two-dimensional disks operad. We introduce involutive little disks operads, which are Z/2Z-orbifold versions of the little disks operads. We…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-04-09 T. A. N. Weelinck