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The centre of a monoidal category is a braided monoidal category. Monoidal categories are monoidal objects (or pseudomonoids) in the monoidal bicategory of categories. This paper provides a universal construction in a braided monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ross Street

This book is an introduction to 2-categories and bicategories, assuming only the most elementary aspects of category theory. A review of basic category theory is followed by a systematic discussion of 2-/bicategories, pasting diagrams, lax…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Niles Johnson , Donald Yau

A semiring generalises the notion of a ring, replacing the additive abelian group structure with that of a commutative monoid. In this paper, we study a notion positioned between a ring and a semiring -- a semiring whose additive monoid is…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Peter F. Faul , Amartya Goswami , Gideo Joubert , Graham Manuell

One goal of applied category theory is to better understand networks appearing throughout science and engineering. Here we introduce "structured cospans" as a way to study networks with inputs and outputs. Given a functor $L \colon…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-11 John C. Baez , Kenny Courser

Following the analogy between algebras (monoids) and monoidal categories the construction of nucleus for non-associative algebras is simulated on the categorical level. Nuclei of categories of modules are considered as an example.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-08-22 Alexei Davydov

We develop the Morita theory of fusion 2-categories. In order to do so, we begin by proving that the relative tensor product of modules over a separable algebra in a fusion 2-category exists. We use this result to construct the Morita…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Thibault D. Décoppet

In this paper we describe a general framework for constructing examples of locally linear semistrict monoidal 2-categories covering many examples appearing in link homology theory. The main input datum is a closed foam evaluation formula.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Leon J. Goertz , Laura Marino , Paul Wedrich

In the present article, we describe constructions of model structures on general bicomplete categories. We are motivated by the following question: given a category $\mathcal{C}$ with a subcategory $w\mathcal{C}$ closed under retracts, when…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Jean-Marie Droz , Inna Zakharevich

We present a family of model structures on the category of multicomplexes. There is a cofibrantly generated model structure in which the weak equivalences are the morphisms inducing an isomorphism at a fixed stage of an associated spectral…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Xin Fu , Ai Guan , Muriel Livernet , Sarah Whitehouse

We prove that for certain monoidal (Quillen) model categories, the category of comonoids therein also admits a model structure.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Alexandru E. Stanculescu

For a finite family of 3-dimensional almost contact metric manifolds with closed the structure form $\eta$ is described a construction of an almost contact metric manifold, where the members of the family are building blocks - cells.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-02 Piotr Dacko

A quasi-schemoid is a small category whose morphisms are colored with appropriate combinatorial data. In this note, Mitchell's embedding theorem for a tame schemoid is established. The result allows us to give a cofibrantly generated model…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Katsuhiko Kuribayashi , Yasuhiro Momose

We construct a symmetric monoidal closed category of polynomial endofunctors (as objects) and simulation cells (as morphisms). This structure is defined using universal properties without reference to representing polynomial diagrams and is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Hyvernat Pierre

We describe a construction that to each algebraically specified notion of higher-dimensional category associates a notion of homomorphism which preserves the categorical structure only up to weakly invertible higher cells. The construction…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Richard Garner

Applied category theory often studies symmetric monoidal categories (SMCs) whose morphisms represent open systems. These structures naturally accommodate complex wiring patterns, leveraging (co)monoidal structures for splitting and merging…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Marius Furter , Yujun Huang , Gioele Zardini

We generalize the constructions of [17,19] to layered semirings, in order to enrich the structure and provide finite examples for applications in arithmetic (including finite examples). The layered category theory of [19] is extended…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Zur Izhakian , Manfred Knebusch , Louis Rowen

We develop a general theory of (extended) inner autoequivalences of objects of any 2-category, generalizing the theory of isotropy groups to the 2-categorical setting. We show how dense subcategories let one compute isotropy in the presence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Pieter Hofstra , Martti Karvonen

In this paper we redevelop the foundations of the category theory of quasi-categories (also called infinity-categories) using 2-category theory. We show that Joyal's strict 2-category of quasi-categories admits certain weak 2-limits, among…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Emily Riehl , Dominic Verity

Actions of monoidal categories on categories, also known as actegories, have been familiar to category theorists for a long time, and yet a comprehensive overview of this topic seems to be missing from the literature. Recently, actegories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Matteo Capucci , Bruno Gavranović

In the sixties, Grothendieck developed the theory of pro-objects over a category. The fundamental property of the category $Pro(C)$ is that there is an embedding $C \stackrel{c}{\rightarrow} Pro(C)$, $Pro(C)$ is closed under small…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Maria Emilia Descotte