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Inversion of various inclusions, that characterize continuity in topological spaces, results in numerous variants of quotient and perfect maps. In the framework of convergences, the said inclusions are no longer equivalent, and each of them…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Szymon Dolecki

We introduce a bivariate version of topological complexity, $\mathrm{TC}(f,g)$, associated with two continuous maps $f\colon X\to Z$ and $g\colon Y\to Z$. This invariant measures the minimal number of continuous motion planning rules…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Jose Manuel Garcia Calcines , Jose Antonio Vilches Alarcon

We explore the notion of sectional number of a group homomorphism, leading to a generalization of the covering number of a group, and present several characterizations when the sectional number is finite, providing estimates for computing…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata , Joe Palacios

We discuss a relation between the structure of derived categories of smooth projective varieties and their birational properties. We suggest a possible definition of a birational invariant, the derived category analogue of the intermediate…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Alexander Kuznetsov

We study the behavior of the abstract sectional category in the Quillen, the Strom and the Mixed proper model structures on topological spaces and prove that, under certain reasonable conditions, all of them coincide with the classical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Marco Moraschini , Aniceto Murillo

We introduce a notion of categorical homotopic distance between functors by adapting the notion of homotopic distance in topological spaces, recently defined by the authors to the context of small categories. Moreover, this notion…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-19 E. Macías-Virgós , D. Mosquera-Lois

A new type of sectional curvature is introduced. The notion is purely algebraic and can be located in linear algebra as well as in differential geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Barbara Opozda

We introduce the notion of a relative spherical category. We prove that such a category gives rise to the generalized Kashaev and Turaev-Viro-type 3-manifold invariants defined in arXiv:1008.3103 and arXiv:0910.1624, respectively. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Nathan Geer , Bertrand Patureau-Mirand

In this paper, we systematically develop the $m$-contiguity distance between simplicial maps as a discrete approximation framework for homotopical complexity in the category of simplicial complexes. We construct an increasing sequence of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Nilay Ekiz Yazici , Nursultan Kuanyshov , Ayse Borat

In the setting of relative topos theory, we show that the pullback of a relative presheaf topos on an arbitrary fibration is the relative presheaf topos on its inverse image. To this end, we develop and exploit a notion of extension with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Léo Bartoli , Olivia Caramello

The classifying space of a crossed complex generalises the construction of Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces. We show how the theory of fibrations of crossed complexes allows the analysis of homotopy classes of maps from a free crossed complex to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-06-25 Ronald Brown

Every smooth manifold contains particles which propagate. These form objects and morphisms of a category equipped with a functor to the category of Abelian groups, turning this into a 0+1 topological field theory. We investigate the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Jean-Yves Welschinger

In this work we shall introduce a new model structure on the category of pro-simplicial sheaves, which is very convenient for the study of \'etale homotopy. Using this model structure we define a pro-space associated to a topos, as a result…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Ilan Barnea , Tomer M. Schlank

In this chapter we survey some particular topics in category theory in a somewhat unconventional manner. Our main focus will be on monoidal categories, mostly symmetric ones, for which we propose a physical interpretation. These are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-12 Bob Coecke , Eric Oliver Paquette

We construct a category of fibrant objects $\mathbb{C}\langle P\rangle$ in the sense of K. Brown from any indexed frame (a kind of indexed poset generalizing triposes) $P$, and show that its homotopy category is the Barr-exact category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Jonas Frey

Category theory is the language of homological algebra, allowing us to state broadly applicable theorems and results without needing to specify the details for every instance of analogous objects. However, authors often stray from the realm…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Skyler Marks

A categorical generalization of the notion of movability from the inverse systems and shape theory was given by the first author who defined the notion of movable category and interpreted by this the movability of topological spaces. In…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Pavel S. Gevorgyan , I. Pop

The development of mathematics has been characterized by the increasing interconnectivity of seemingly separate disciplines. Such interplay has been facilitated by a massive development in formalism; category theory has provided a common…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Aurel Malapani

Classification questions are often about understanding components of a category. It is much more desirable however to be able to understand the entire homotopy type of this category and not just the set of its components. In this paper we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Martin Blomgren , Wojciech Chacholski

We first study the higher version of the relative topological complexity by using the homotopic distance. We also introduced the generalized version of the relative topological complexity of a topological pair on both the Schwarz genus and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Melih İs , İsmet Karaca