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In this paper we discuss various philosophical aspects of the hyperstructure concept extending networks and higher categories. By this discussion we hope to pave the way for applications and further developments of the mathematical theory…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Nils A. Baas

The basic notions of category theory, such as limit, adjunction, and orthogonality, all involve assertions of the existence and uniqueness of certain arrows. Weak notions arise when one drops the uniqueness requirement and asks only for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Stephen Lack , Jiri Rosicky

Small B\'{e}nabou's bicategories and, in particular, Mac Lane's monoidal categories, have well-understood classifying spaces, which give geometric meaning to their cells. This paper contains some contributions to the study of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-18 M. Calvo , A. M. Cegarra , B. A. Heredia

We observe that the category of topological space, uniform spaces, and simplicial sets are all, in a natural way, full subcategories of the same larger category, namely the simplicial category of filters; this is, moreover, implicit in the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Misha Gavrilovich

The study of complex systems through the lens of category theory consistently proves to be a powerful approach. We propose that cognition deserves the same category-theoretic treatment. We show that by considering a highly-compact cognitive…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-04 Sophie Alyx Taylor , Son Cao Tran , Dan V. Nicolau

We describe two types of localization for $(\infty, 1)$-categories which determine the successive terms in the homotopy spectral sequence of a (co)simplicial object.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-02 David Blanc , Nicholas Meadows

Higher structures - infinity algebras and other objects up to homotopy, categorified algebras, `oidified' concepts, operads, higher categories, higher Lie theory, higher gauge theory... - are currently intensively investigated in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-13 David Khudaverdyan

The theory of associative $n$-categories has recently been proposed as a strictly associative and unital approach to higher category theory. As a foundation for a proof assistant, this is potentially attractive, since it has the potential…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Lukas Heidemann , David Reutter , Jamie Vicary

In this paper, we define a generalization of indexed categories and contextual categories which we call contextually indexed (contextual) categories. While contextual categories are models of ordinary type theories, contextually indexed…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Valery Isaev

Polynomial functors are a categorical generalization of the usual notion of polynomial, which has found many applications in higher categories and type theory: those are generated by polynomials consisting a set of monomials built from sets…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Eric Finster , Samuel Mimram , Maxime Lucas , Thomas Seiller

The goal of this article is to emphasize the role of cubical sets in enriched categories theory and infinity-categories theory. We show in particular that categories enriched in cubical sets provide a convenient way to describe many…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Brice Le Grignou

The manuscript is an overview of the motivations and foundations lying behind Voevodsky's ideas of constructing categories similar to the ordinary topological homotopy categories. The objects of these categories are strictly related to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-26 Simone Borghesi

We consider the problem of defining the integers in Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT). We can define the type of integers as signed natural numbers (i.e., using a coproduct), but its induction principle is very inconvenient to work with, since it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Thorsten Altenkirch , Luis Scoccola

This paper contains some contributions to the study of the relationship between 2-categories and the homotopy types of their classifying spaces. Mainly, generalizations are given of both Quillen's Theorem B and Thomason's Homotopy Colimit…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-26 Antonio M. Cegarra

We develop category theory within Univalent Foundations, which is a foundational system for mathematics based on a homotopical interpretation of dependent type theory. In this system, we propose a definition of "category" for which equality…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Benedikt Ahrens , Chris Kapulkin , Michael Shulman

We define for each $n \geq 1$ a symmetric monoidal $(\infty, n+1)$-category $n\mathrm{Pr}^L$ whose objects we call presentable $(\infty,n)$-categories, generalizing the usual theory of presentable $(\infty,1)$-categories. We show that each…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Germán Stefanich

We give a criterion for a functor \(F:C\rightarrow B\) between small categories to generate a small presentation of the universal model category \(U(B)\) in the sense of Dugger.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Seunghun Lee

For every $\infty$-category $\mathscr{C}$, there is a homotopy $n$-category $\mathrm{h}_n \mathscr{C}$ and a canonical functor $\gamma_n \colon \mathscr{C} \to \mathrm{h}_n \mathscr{C}$. We study these higher homotopy categories, especially…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2022-06-23 George Raptis

A homotopy analogue of the notion of a triangular Lie bialgebra is proposed with a goal of extending the basic notions of theory of quantum groups to the context of homotopy algebras and, in particular, introducing a homotopical…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Denis Bashkirov , Alexander A. Voronov

In order to apply nonstandard methods to questions of algebraic geometry we continue our investigation from "Enlargements of categories" (Theory Appl. Categ. 14 (2005), No. 16, 357--398) and show how important homotopical constructions…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-08 Lars Brünjes , Christian Serpé