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We develop a theory of categories which are simultaneously (1) indexed over a base category S with finite products, and (2) enriched over an S-indexed monoidal category V. This includes classical enriched categories, indexed and fibered…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Michael Shulman

Compact categories have lately seen renewed interest via applications to quantum physics. Being essentially finite-dimensional, they cannot accomodate (co)limit-based constructions. For example, they cannot capture protocols such as quantum…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Chris Heunen

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

We show that a version of Martin-L\"of type theory with an extensional identity type former I, a unit type N1 , Sigma-types, Pi-types, and a base type is a free category with families (supporting these type formers) both in a 1- and a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Simon Castellan , Pierre Clairambault , Peter Dybjer

Given a pair of pseudo double categories $\mathbb A$ and $\mathbb B$, the lax functors from $\mathbb A$ to $\mathbb B$, along with their transformations, modules, and multimodulations, assemble into a virtual double category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Nathanael Arkor

We use the terms "$\infty$-categories" and "$\infty$-functors" to mean the objects and morphisms in an "$\infty$-cosmos." Quasi-categories, Segal categories, complete Segal spaces, naturally marked simplicial sets, iterated complete Segal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Emily Riehl , Dominic Verity

A restriction category is an abstract formulation for a category of partial maps, defined in terms of certain specified idempotents called the restriction idempotents. All categories of partial maps are restriction categories; conversely, a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 J. R. B. Cockett , Stephen Lack

One way of interpreting a left Kan extension is as taking a kind of "partial colimit", whereby one replaces parts of a diagram by their colimits. We make this intuition precise by means of the "partial evaluations" sitting in the so-called…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Paolo Perrone , Walter Tholen

We define and study LNL polycategories, which abstract the judgmental structure of classical linear logic with exponentials. Many existing structures can be represented as LNL polycategories, including LNL adjunctions, linear exponential…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Michael Shulman

Recent advances in our understanding of higher derived limits carry multiple implications in the fields of condensed and pyknotic mathematics, as well as for the study of strong homology. These implications are thematically diverse,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Jeffrey Bergfalk , Chris Lambie-Hanson

We study limits in 2-categories whose objects are categories with extra structure and whose morphisms are functors preserving the structure only up to a coherent comparison map, which may or may not be required to be invertible. This is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-20 Stephen Lack , Michael Shulman

Given two polynomials $p(x), q(x)$ of degree $d$, we give a combinatorial formula for the finite free cumulants of $p(x)\boxtimes_d q(x)$. We show that this formula admits a topological expansion in terms of non-crossing multi-annular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Octavio Arizmendi , Jorge Garza-Vargas , Daniel Perales

For an abelian category $\mathcal{A}$, we establish the relation between its derived and extension dimensions. Then for an artin algebra $\Lambda$, we give the upper bounds of the extension dimension of $\Lambda$ in terms of the radical…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Junling Zheng , Zhaoyong Huang

If T is a commutative monad on a cartesian closed category, then there exists a natural T-bilinear pairing from T(X) times the space of T(1)-valued functions on X ("integration"), as well as a natural T-bilinear action on T(X) by the space…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-31 Anders Kock

As an example of the categorical apparatus of pseudo algebras over 2-theories, we show that pseudo algebras over the 2-theory of categories can be viewed as pseudo double categories with folding or as appropriate 2-functors into…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Thomas M. Fiore

We show that the free construction from multicategories to permutative categories is a categorically-enriched non-symmetric multifunctor. Our main result then shows that the induced functor between categories of algebras is an equivalence…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Niles Johnson , Donald Yau

We extend the recently introduced setting of coherent differentiation for taking into account not only differentiation, but also Taylor expansion in categories which are not necessarily (left)additive. The main idea consists in extending…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Thomas Ehrhard , Aymeric Walch

Let $A$ be a finite dimensional algebra and $D^b(A)$ be the bounded derived category of finitely generated left $A$-modules. In this paper we consider lengths of compact exceptional objects in $D^b(A)$, proving a sufficient condition such…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Liping Li

Many structured categories of interest are most naturally described as algebras for a relative monad, but turn out nonetheless to be algebras for an ordinary monad. We show that, under suitable hypotheses, the left oplax Kan extension of a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Umberto Tarantino , Joshua Wrigley

Differential categories provide the categorical foundations for the algebraic approaches to differentiation. They have been successful in formalizing various important concepts related to differentiation, such as, in particular,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay , Chiara Sava