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We propose a new notion of `n-category with duals', which we call a Whitney n-category. There are two motivations. The first is that Baez and Dolan's Tangle Hypothesis is (almost) tautological when interpreted as a statement about Whitney…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-19 Conor Smyth , Jon Woolf

We construct a pairing, which we call factorization homology, between framed manifolds and higher categories. The essential geometric notion is that of a vari-framing of a stratified manifold, which is a framing on each stratum together…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-02-25 David Ayala , John Francis , Nick Rozenblyum

A generalization of the notion of an $\infty$-category is presented, allowing for ($\infty$-)cat(egorie)s that may have non-invertible higher morphisms.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Daniel Gerigk

Categories, n-categories, double categories, and multicategories (among others) all have similar definitions as collections of cells with composition operations. We give an explicit description of the information required to define any…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Brandon Shapiro

The aim of this paper is to reformulate the theory of unbounded derived categories, including more recent categories of first and second kind, using the language of $(\infty,1)$-categories.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Grigory Kondyrev

This paper has two objectives. The first is to develop the theory of bicategories enriched in a monoidal bicategory -- categorifying the classical theory of categories enriched in a monoidal category -- up to a description of the free…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Richard Garner , Michael Shulman

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

We study the $2$-categories BIon, of (generalized) bounded ionads, and $\text{Acc}_\omega$, of accessible categories with directed colimits, as an abstract framework to approach formal model theory. We relate them to topoi and (lex)…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Ivan Di Liberti

Ideals are used to define homological functors for additive categories. In abelian categories the ideals corresponding to the usual universal objects are principal, and the construction reduces, in a choice dependent way, to homology…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Lucian M. Ionescu

This rough note describes some attempts to define a notion of enriched topology (and the associated theory of enriched stacks) on a category enriched over a symmetric monoidal model category, and poses some related questions.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gabriele Vezzosi

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

The aim of this paper is to present a simplified version of the notion of $\infty$-groupoid developed by Grothendieck in "Pursuing Stacks" and to introduce a definition of $\infty$-categories inspired by Grothendieck's approach.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-14 Georges Maltsiniotis

This article is intended as a reference guide to various notions of monoidal categories and their associated string diagrams. It is hoped that this will be useful not just to mathematicians, but also to physicists, computer scientists, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Peter Selinger

We prove general adjoint functor theorems for weakly (co)complete $n$-categories. This class of $n$-categories includes the homotopy $n$-categories of (co)complete $\infty$-categories, so these $n$-categories do not admit all small…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Hoang Kim Nguyen , George Raptis , Christoph Schrade

The study of homotopy theoretic phenomena in the language of type theory is sometimes loosely called `synthetic homotopy theory'. Homotopy theory in type theory is only one of the many aspects of homotopy type theory, which also includes…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Egbert Rijke

The aim of this paper is to prove a generalization of the famous Theorem A of Quillen for strict $\infty$-categories. This result is central to the homotopy theory of strict $\infty$-categories developed by the authors. The proof presented…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Dimitri Ara , Georges Maltsiniotis

We prove that the homotopy theory of cofibration categories is equivalent to the homotopy theory of cocomplete quasicategories. This is achieved by presenting both homotopy theories as fibration categories and constructing an explicit…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Karol Szumiło

Polygraphs are a higher-dimensional generalization of the notion of directed graph. Based on those as unifying concept, this monograph on polygraphs revisits the theory of rewriting in the context of strict higher categories, adopting the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Dimitri Ara , Albert Burroni , Yves Guiraud , Philippe Malbos , François Métayer , Samuel Mimram

This paper develops a basic theory of H-groups. We introduce a special quotient of H-groups and extend some algebraic constructions of topological groups to the category of H-groups and H-maps. We use these constructions to prove some…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-09-28 Ali Pakdaman , Hamid Torabi , Behrooz Mashayekhy

We introduce a notion of $\Theta$-categories, which is a refinement of the notion of symmetric monoidal $\infty$-categories. We use this notion to prove a Tannakian duality statement, relating $\Theta$-categories with fpqc-stacks by means…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Joost Nuiten , Bertrand Toen