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We construct a functor from the category of graphs to the category of groups which is faithful and "almost" full, in the sense that it induces bijections of the Hom sets up to trivial homomorphisms and conjugation in the category of groups.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-19 Adam J. Przezdziecki

We work with a generalization of knot theory, in which one diagram is reachable from another via a finite sequence of moves if a fixed condition, regarding the existence of certain morphisms in an associated category, is satisfied for every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Maciej Niebrzydowski

Diagram chasing is a customary proof method used in category theory and homological algebra. It involves an element-theoretic approach to show that certain properties hold for a commutative diagram. When dealing with abelian categories for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Valentino Vito

Unstable operations in a generalized cohomology theory E give rise to a functor from the category of algebras over E to itself which is a colimit of representable functors and a comonoid with respect to composition of such functors. In this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Tilman Bauer

The category of (colored) props is an enhancement of the category of colored operads, and thus of the category of small categories. The titular category has nice formal properties: it is bicomplete and is a symmetric monoidal category, with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Philip Hackney , Marcy Robertson

We are checking the closed categories beginning with the category of sets and ending with the category of categories. The novelty is a generalizing the notion of adjoint functors to the joint pair of functors in the category of directed…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Gintaras Valiukevičius

The theory of integral, or Fourier-Mukai, transforms between derived categories of sheaves is a well established tool in noncommutative algebraic geometry. General "representation theorems" identify all reasonable linear functors between…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 David Ben-Zvi , David Nadler , Anatoly Preygel

This paper is about equality of proofs in which a binary predicate formalizing properties of equality occurs, besides conjunction and the constant true proposition. The properties of equality in question are those of a preordering relation,…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-04-19 K. Dosen , Z. Petric

We introduce basic notions in category theory to type theorists, including comprehension categories, categories with attributes, contextual categories, type categories, and categories with families along with additional discussions that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Tesla Zhang

Category theory can be used to state formulas in First-Order Logic without using set membership. Several notable results in logic such as proof of the continuum hypothesis can be elegantly rewritten in category theory. We propose in this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chan Le Duc

Interest in combinatorial interpretations of mathematical entities stems from the convenience of the concrete models they provide. Finding a bijective proof of a seemingly obscure identity can reveal unsuspected significance to it. Finding…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey Morton

After explaining the importance of model categories in abstract homotopy theory, we provide concrete examples demonstrating that various categories of manifolds do not have all finite colimits, and hence cannot be model categories. We then…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-27 David White

The setting is the representation theory of a simply connected, semisimple algebraic group over a field of positive characteristic. There is a natural transformation from the wall-crossing functor to the identity functor. The kernel of this…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-02-09 Kevin J. Carlin

When faced with the question of how to represent properties in a formal proof system any user has to make design decisions. We have proved three of the theorems from Maskin's 2004 survey article on Auction Theory using the Isabelle/HOL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-04 Marco B. Caminati , Manfred Kerber , Christoph Lange , Colin Rowat

The structure of the category of matroids and strong maps is investigated: it has coproducts and equalizers, but not products or coequalizers; there are functors from the categories of graphs and vector spaces, the latter being faithful;…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Chris Heunen , Vaia Patta

We show that a functor category whose domain is a colored category is a topos.The topos structure enables us to introduce cohomology of colored categories including quasi-schemoids. If the given colored category arises from an association…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Katsuhiko Kuribayashi , Yasuhiude Numata

We initiate the systematic study of modular representations of symmetric groups that arise via the braiding in (symmetric) tensor categories over fields of positive characteristic. We determine what representations appear for certain…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Kevin Coulembier

For $X$ a finite category and $F$ a finite field, we study the additive image of the functor $\operatorname{H}_0(-,F) \colon \operatorname{rep}(X, \mathbf{Top}) \to \operatorname{rep}(X, \mathbf{Vect}_F)$, or equivalently, of the free…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Ulrich Bauer , Magnus Bakke Botnan , Steffen Oppermann , Johan Steen

There are two fundamental obstructions to representing noncommutative rings via sheaves. First, there is no subcanonical coverage on the opposite of the category of rings that includes all covering families in the big Zariski site. Second,…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Manuel L. Reyes

In context of efforts of composing category-theoretic and logical methods in the area of knowledge representation we propose the notion of conceptory. We consider intersection/union and other constructions in conceptories as expressive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Osman Bineev