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This note is a contribution written for the second volume of the Encyclopedia of mathematical physics. We give an informal introduction to the notions of an $(\infty,n)$-category and $(\infty,n)$-functor, discussing some of the different…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Viktoriya Ozornova , Martina Rovelli

If all objects of a simplicial combinatorial model category \cat A are cofibrant, then there exists the homotopy model structure on the category of small functors $\sS^{\cat A}$, where the fibrant objects are homotopy functors, i.e.,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Boris Chorny , David White

Expansions of abelian categories are introduced. These are certain functors between abelian categories and provide a tool for induction/reduction arguments. Expansions arise naturally in the study of coherent sheaves on weighted projective…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Xiao-Wu Chen , Henning Krause

The categorical formulation of the Eilenberg-Watts calculus relates, for any pair of finite categories M and N, the finite categories Fun^{le}(N,M) and Fun^{re}(N,M) of linear left or right exact functors and the Deligne product \bar N…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Jürgen Fuchs , Gregor Schaumann , Christoph Schweigert

A new calculus of planar diagrams involving diagrammatics for biadjoint functors and degenerate affine Hecke algebras is introduced. The calculus leads to an additive monoidal category whose Grothendieck ring contains an integral form of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Mikhail Khovanov

For a smooth manifold M, we define a topological space X(k,M), and show that polynomial functors O(M)--> C of degree <= k from the poset of open subsets of M to a simplicial model category can be classified be a version of linear functors…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Paul Arnaud Songhafouo Tsopmene , Donald Stanley

We show that differential calculus (in its usual form, or in the general form of topological differential calculus) can be fully imdedded into a functor category (functors from a small category of anchord tangent algebras to anchored sets).…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Wolfgang Bertram , Jérémy Haut

This paper reformulates Goodwillie calculus of $\infty$-categories including non-presentable $\infty$-categories. In the case of presentable $\infty$-categories our definition is equivalent to Heuts's~\cite{Heuts2018} work. As an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Yuki Kato

We define Weil spaces, Weil manifolds, Weil varieties and Weil Lie groups over an arbitrary commutative base ring K (in particular, over discrete rings such as the integers), and we develop the basic theory of such spaces, leading up the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-12 Wolfgang Bertram

Microlocal sheaf theory of \cite{KS90} makes an essential use of an extension lemma for sheaves due to Kashiwara, and this lemma is based on a criterion of the same author giving conditions in order that a functor defined in $\mathbb{R}$…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Marco Robalo , Pierre Schapira

We construct the Weil functor $T^A$ corresponding to a general Weil algebra $A = K \oplus N$: this is a functor from the category of manifolds over a general topological base field or ring $K$ (of arbitrary characteristic) to the category…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-17 Wolfgang Bertram , Arnaud Souvay

We present an analysis of some constructions and arguments from the universe of T. G. Goodwillie's Calculus, in a general model theoretic setting.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-10 Alexandru E. Stanculescu

We provide a toolbox of extension, gluing, and assembly techniques for factorization algebras. Using these tools, we fill various gaps in the literature on factorization algebras on stratified manifolds, the main one being that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Eilind Karlsson , Claudia I. Scheimbauer , Tashi Walde

Model structures for many different kinds of functor calculus can be obtained by applying a theorem of Bousfield to a suitable category of functors. In this paper, we give a general criterion for when model categories obtained via this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Lauren Bandklayder , Julia E. Bergner , Rhiannon Griffiths , Brenda Johnson , Rekha Santhanam

Embedding Calculus, as described by Weiss, is a calculus of functors, suitable for studying contravariant functors from the poset of open subsets of a smooth manifold M, denoted O(M), to a category of topological spaces (of which the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Daniel Pryor

We make precise the analogy between Goodwillie's calculus of functors in homotopy theory and the differential calculus of smooth manifolds by introducing a higher-categorical framework of which both theories are examples. That framework is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Kristine Bauer , Matthew Burke , Michael Ching

In the homotopical study of spaces of smooth embeddings, the functor calculus method (Goodwillie-Klein-Weiss manifold calculus) has opened up important connections to operad theory. Using this and a few simplifying observations, we arrive…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Pedro Boavida de Brito , Michael S. Weiss

In this note, we investigate the Witt vectors in the min-plus algebra of extended non-negative real numbers, and consider categories enriched over them viewed as a monoidal category.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Ryo Horiuchi

We survey the theory and applications of Goodwillie's calculus of homotopy functors and related topics.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Gregory Arone , Michael Ching

We study functors from spaces to spaces or spectra that preserve weak homotopy equivalences. For each such functor we construct a universal n-excisive approximation, which may be thought of as its n-excisive part. Homogeneous functors,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Thomas G. Goodwillie