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We define a comonad cohomology of track categories and we show it is linked by a long exact sequence to its Dwyer-Kan-Smith cohomology . Under mild hypothesis on the track category, we show that its comonad cohomology coincides, up to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-16 David Blanc , Simona Paoli

The 2-categories of strict 2-groups and crossed modules are introduced and their 2-equivalence is made explicit.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-09 Sven-S. Porst

We consider a theory of centers and homotopy centers of monoids in monoidal categories which themselves are enriched in duoidal categories. Duoidal categories (introduced by Aguillar and Mahajan under the name 2-monoidal categories) are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-08-14 M. Batanin , M. Markl

We compute the classifying space of the surface category $h\mathrm{Bord}_2$ whose objects are closed oriented $1$-manifolds and whose morphisms are diffeomorphism classes of oriented surface bordisms, and show that it is rationally…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jan Steinebrunner

Homotopy Quantum Field Theories as variants of Topological Quantum Field Theories are described by functors from some cobordism category, enriched with homotopical data, to a symmetric monoidal category $\mathcal{V}$. A new notion of HQFTs…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Paul Großkopf

In this paper we give a summary of the comparisons between different definitions of so-called (\infty,1)-categories, which are considered to be models for \infty-categories whose n-morphisms are all invertible for n>1. They are also, from…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julia E. Bergner

We develop a notion of iterated monoidal category and show that this notion corresponds in a precise way to the notion of iterated loop space. Specifically the group completion of the nerve of such a category is an iterated loop space and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Balteanu , Z. Fiedorowicz , R. Schwaenzl , R. Vogt

In this paper we show that the Baues-Wirsching complex used to define cohomology of categories is a 2-functor from a certain 2-category of natural systems of abelian groups to the 2-category of chain complexes, chain homomorphism and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Fernando Muro

Given a category with a bifunctor and natural isomorphisms for associativity, commutativity and left and right identity we do not assume that extra constraining diagrams hold. We introduce groupoids of coupling trees to describe a version…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. P. Joyce

We prove that the homotopy theory of cofibration categories is equivalent to the homotopy theory of cocomplete quasicategories. This is achieved by presenting both homotopy theories as fibration categories and constructing an explicit…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Karol Szumiło

We associate to a 2-vector bundle over an essentially finite groupoid a 2-vector space of parallel sections, or, in representation theoretic terms, of higher invariants, which can be described as homotopy fixed points. Our main result is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Christoph Schweigert , Lukas Woike

Noncommutative near-group fusion categories were completely classified in the previous work of the first named author by using an operator algebraic method (and hence under the assumption of unitarity), and they were shown to be group…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Masaki Izumi , Henry Tucker

Let G be a compact Lie group acting on a smooth manifold M. In this paper, we consider Meinrenken's G-equivariant bundle gerbe connections on M as objects in a 2-groupoid. We prove this 2-category is equivalent to the 2-groupoid of gerbe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-26 Byungdo Park , Corbett Redden

The semisimple module categories over a braided fusion category $\mathcal{C}$ form a connected fusion 2-category $\text{Mod}(\mathcal{C})$. Its Drinfeld center $\mathcal{Z}(\text{Mod}(\mathcal{C}))$ is a braided fusion 2-category. To any…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Alea Hofstetter , Christoph Schweigert

We introduce the notion of a definable category--a category equivalent to a full subcategory of a locally finitely presentable category that is closed under products, directed colimits and pure subobjects. Definable subcategories are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Amit Kuber , Jiří Rosický

We show that the category of graphs has the structure of a 2-category with homotopy as the 2-cells. We then develop an explicit description of homotopies for finite graphs, in terms of what we call `spider moves'. We then create a category…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Tien Chih , Laura Scull

We have generalised the notion of categorical theory in model theory to the context of coherent theories. We prove a duality result between the full sub-2-category of pretopoi which are categorical, and the 2-category of profinite monoids.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Lingyuan Ye

Many monoidal-type objects are known to be classified by maps from the Catalan simplicial set $\mathbb{C}$ to various nerves of categories and higher categories. There are, for example, three different nerves of the 2-category of categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Aaron Greenspan

We build a concrete and natural model for the strict 2-category of orbifolds. In particular we prove that if one localizes the 2-category of proper etale Lie groupoids at a class of 1-arrows that we call "covers", then the strict 2-category…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-02 Eugene Lerman

We identify natural symmetries of each rigid higher braided category. Specifically, we construct a functorial action by the continuous group $\Omega \mathsf{O}(n)$ on each $\mathcal{E}_{n-1}$-monoidal $(g,d)$-category $\mathcal{R}$ in which…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-11 David Ayala , John Francis