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We construct Grothendieck topologies on the path category of a finite graph, examining both coarse and discrete cases that offer different perspectives on quiver representations. The coarse topology declares each vertex covered by all…

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One goal of applied category theory is to understand open systems. We compare two ways of describing open systems as cospans equipped with extra data. First, given a functor $L \colon \mathsf{A} \to \mathsf{X}$, a "structured cospan" is a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-07 John C. Baez , Kenny Courser , Christina Vasilakopoulou

We introduce categories $\M$ and $\S$ internal in the tricategory $\Bicat_3$ of bicategories, pseudofunctors, pseudonatural transformations and modifications, for matrices and spans in a 1-strict tricategory $V$. Their horizontal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Bojana Femić , Enrico Ghiorzi

We construct a semiorthogonal decomposition of the derived category of coherent sheaves on a quadric fibration consisting of several copies of the derived category of the base of the fibration and the derived category of coherent sheaves of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Kuznetsov

In this thesis, we develop the theory of bifibrations of polycategories. We start by studying how to express certain categorical structures as universal properties by generalising the shape of morphism. We call this phenomenon…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Nicolas Blanco

Six-dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs) occupy a central place in the study of quantum field theories encountered in high energy theory. This article reviews the top down construction and study of this rich class of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Jonathan J. Heckman , Tom Rudelius

A full triangulated subcategory $\mathsf{L} \subset \mathsf{T}$ of triangulated category $\mathsf{T}$ is \emph{localizing} if it is stable for coproducts. If, further, $\mathsf{T}$ is $\otimes$-triangulated, we say that $\mathsf{L}$ is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Leovigildo Alonso , Ana Jeremías , Eduardo Loureiro

We compare the bicategory of spans with that of bisets (a.k.a. bimodules, distributors, profunctors) in the context of finite groupoids. We construct in particular a well-behaved pseudo-functor from spans to bisets. This yields an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Ivo Dell'Ambrogio , James Huglo

We extend the theory of diffeomorphism-invariant spin network states from the real-analytic category to the smooth category. Suppose that G is a compact connected semisimple Lie group and P -> M is a smooth principal G-bundle. A `cylinder…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 John C. Baez , Stephen Sawin

In this article, we develop an explicit categorical realization of sheafification based on colimits, products, and subobjects, emphasizing its behavior in algebraic and topological-algebraic settings. We prove that if $\mathcal{C}$ is a…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Julio César Hernández Arzusa , Hernán Giraldo , Samir Rivero Castro

We investigate equivalences between the categories of perfects complexes of the quotients of two smooth projective schemes by the action of a finite group. As a result we give a necessary and sufficient condition for an equivalence between…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Francesco Amodeo , Riccardo Moschetti , Mattia Ornaghi

In this paper we redevelop the foundations of the category theory of quasi-categories (also called infinity-categories) using 2-category theory. We show that Joyal's strict 2-category of quasi-categories admits certain weak 2-limits, among…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Emily Riehl , Dominic Verity

Given any additive category $\mathcal{C}$ with split idempotents, pseudokernels and pseudocokernels, we show that a subcategory $\mathcal{B}$ is coreflective if, and only if, it is precovering, closed under direct summands and each morphism…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Manuel Cortés-Izurdiaga , Septimiu Crivei , Manuel Saorín

In these notes, an introduction to derived categories and derived functors is given. The main focus is the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on a smooth projective variety.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Andreas Hochenegger

To any affine scheme with a $\mathbb{G}_m$-action, we provide a Bousfield colocalization on the equivariant derived category of modules by constructing, via homotopical methods, an idempotent integral kernel. This endows the equivariant…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Matthew R. Ballard , Colin Diemer , David Favero

Given a marked $\infty$-category $\mathcal{D}^{\dagger}$ (i.e. an $\infty$-category equipped with a specified collection of morphisms) and a functor $F: \mathcal{D} \to \mathbb{B}$ with values in an $\infty$-bicategory, we define…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Fernando Abellán García

We give a classification of substructures (= closed subbifunctors) of a given skeletally small extriangulated category by using the category of defects, in a similar way to the author's classification of exact structures of a given additive…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Haruhisa Enomoto

Orbifolds of two-dimensional quantum field theories have a natural formulation in terms of defects or domain walls. This perspective allows for a rich generalisation of the orbifolding procedure, which we study in detail for the case of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Nils Carqueville , Ingo Runkel

Let $\mathbb{k}$ be a characteristic zero domain. We define and study a diagrammatic monoidal $\mathbb{k}$-linear supercategory $\mathbf{Web}^{aff}_{A}$ associated to any locally unital Frobenius $\mathbb{k}$-superalgebra $A$. This category…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Nicholas Davidson , Jonathan R. Kujawa , Robert Muth

We introduce the new concept of cartesian module over a pseudofunctor $R$ from a small category to the category of small preadditive categories. Already the case when $R$ is a (strict) functor taking values in the category of commutative…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Sergio Estrada , Simone Virili