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We study and relate categories of modules, comodules and contramodules over a representation of a small category taking values in (co)algebras, in a manner similar to modules over a ringed space. As a result, we obtain a categorical…

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Category theory provides a collective description of many arrangements in mathematics, such as topological spaces, Banach spaces and game theory. Within this collective description, the perspective from any individual member of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Suddhasattwa Das

We introduce the basic elements of the theory of parametrized $\infty$-categories and functors between them. These notions are defined as suitable fibrations of $\infty$-categories and functors between them. We give as many examples as we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Clark Barwick , Emanuele Dotto , Saul Glasman , Denis Nardin , Jay Shah

This paper considers the difficulty in the set-system approach to generalizing graph theory. These difficulties arise categorically as the category of set-system hypergraphs is shown not to be cartesian closed and lacks enough projective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Will Grilliette , Lucas J. Rusnak

In this paper, we give precise mathematical form to the idea of a structure whose data and axioms are faithfully represented by a graphical calculus; some prominent examples are operads, polycategories, properads, and PROPs. Building on the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Richard Garner , Tom Hirschowitz

This paper is the first in a series of papers in which we define and study a category of "sheaves of $\mathcal Z$-modules on the set of alcoves" that carries important information on the category of representations of semisimple Lie…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Peter Fiebig , Martina Lanini

Category is put to work in the non-associative realm in the article. We focus on a typical example of non-associative category. Its objects are octonionic bimodules, morphisms are octonionic para-linear maps, and compositions are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Qinghai Huo , Guangbin Ren

Split preorders are preordering relations on a domain whose composition is defined in a particular way by splitting the domain into two disjoint subsets. These relations and the associated composition arise in categorial proof theory in…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-01-30 K. Dosen , Z. Petric

In these self-contained low prerequisite introductory notes we first present (in part 1) basic concepts of set theory and algebra without explicit category theory. We then present (in part 2) basic category theory involving a somewhat…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Earnest Akofor

In Categorial Topology, given a category (as a "geometric object") we can consider its properties preserved under continuous action (a "deformation") of a comma-propagation operation. However, the Metacategory space, valid for all…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Zoran Majkic

When formalizing mathematics in (generalized predicative) constructive type theories, or more practically in proof assistants such as Coq or Agda, one is often using setoids (types with explicit equivalence relations). In this note we…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Erik Palmgren

Morphisms are homomorphisms under the concatenation operation of the set of words over a finite set. Changing the elements of the finite set does not essentially change the morphism. We propose a way to select a unique representing member…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-14 F. Michel Dekking

We define a diagrammatic monoidal category, together with a full and essentially surjective monoidal functor from this category to the category of modules over the exceptional Lie algebra of type $F_4$. In this way, we obtain a set of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Raj Gandhi , Alistair Savage , Kirill Zainoulline

Given a vector space with an action of a semi-simple Lie algebra, we can try to "categorify" this representation, which means finding a category where the generators of the Lie algebra act by functors. Such categorical representations arise…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Joel Kamnitzer

We introduce a notion of complexity of diagrams (and in particular of objects and morphisms) in an arbitrary category, as well as a notion of complexity of functors between categories equipped with complexity functions. We discuss several…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Saugata Basu , M. Umut Isik

We define quasi--locally presentable categories as big unions of coreflective subcategories which are locally presentable. Under appropriate hypotheses we prove a representability theorem for exact contravariant functors defined on a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-11 George Ciprian Modoi

Optics are bidirectional data accessors that capture data transformation patterns such as accessing subfields or iterating over containers. Profunctor optics are a particular choice of representation supporting modularity, meaning that we…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Bryce Clarke , Derek Elkins , Jeremy Gibbons , Fosco Loregian , Bartosz Milewski , Emily Pillmore , Mario Román

A concept of "evolving categories" is suggested to build a simple, scalable, mathematically consistent framework for representing in uniform way both data and algorithms. A state machine for executing algorithms becomes clear, rich and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Evgeny Yanenko

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

In the context of categories equipped with a structure of nullhomotopies, we introduce the notion of homotopy torsion theory. As special cases, we recover pretorsion theories as well as torsion theories in multi-pointed categories and in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Sandra Mantovani , Mariano Messora , Enrico M. Vitale