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Wehrheim and Woodward have shown how to embed all the canonical relations between symplectic manifolds into a category in which the composition is the usual one when transversality and embedding assumptions are satisfied. A morphism in…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-14 Alan Weinstein

We generalise the usual notion of fibred category; first to fibred 2-categories and then to fibred bicategories. Fibred 2-categories correspond to 2-functors from a 2-category into 2-Cat. Fibred bicategories correspond to trihomomorphisms…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Mitchell Buckley

We study an enhanced version of the Morse degeneration of Fukaya $A_\infty$ category with higher compositions given by counts of gradient flow trees. The enhancement consists in allowing morphisms from an object to itself to be chains on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 Olga Chekeres , Andrey Losev , Pavel Mnev , Donald R. Youmans

To formalize calculations in linear algebra for the development of efficient algorithms and a framework suitable for functional programming languages and faster parallelized computations, we adopt an approach that treats elements of linear…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Fatimah Rita Ahmadi

Recently Riehl and Verity have introduced $\infty$-cosmoi, which are certain simplicially enriched categories with additional structure. In this paper we investigate those $\infty$-cosmoi which are in fact $2$-categories; we shall refer to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-15 John Bourke , Stephen Lack

Reasoning about weak higher categorical structures constitutes a challenging task, even to the experts. One principal reason is that the language of set theory is not invariant under the weaker notions of equivalence at play, such as…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jonathan Weinberger

A new category $\mathfrak{dp}$, called of dynamical patterns addressing a primitive, nongeometrical concept of dynamics, is defined and employed to construct a $2-$category $2-\mathfrak{dp}$, where the irreducible plurality of species of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Benedetto Silvestri

Axiomatic type theory is a dependent type theory without computation rules. The term equality judgements that usually characterise these rules are replaced by computation axioms, i.e., additional term judgements that are typed by identity…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Matteo Spadetto

The purpose of this article is threefold: Firstly, we propose some enhancements to the existing definition of 6-functor formalisms. Secondly, we systematically study the category of kernels, which is a certain 2-category attached to every…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Claudius Heyer , Lucas Mann

In this short note we prove that two definitions of (co)ends in $\infty$-categories, via twisted arrow $\infty$-categories and via $\infty$-categories of simplices, are equivalent. We also show that weighted (co)limits, which can be defined…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Rune Haugseng

Despite deep learning models running well-defined mathematical functions, we lack a formal mathematical framework for describing model architectures. Ad-hoc notation, diagrams, and pseudocode poorly handle nonlinear broadcasting and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Vincent Abbott , Gioele Zardini

Given a 2-category $\mathcal{A}$, a $2$-functor $\mathcal{A} \overset {F} {\longrightarrow} \mathcal{C}at$ and a distinguished 1-subcategory $\Sigma \subset \mathcal{A}$ containing all the objects, a $\sigma$-cone for $F$ (with respect to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-21 M. E. Descotte , E. J. Dubuc , M. Szyld

We construct a stable infinity category with objects flow categories and morphisms flow bimodules; our construction has many flavors, related to a choice of bordism theory, and we discuss in particular framed bordism and the bordism theory…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Mohammed Abouzaid , Andrew J. Blumberg

In this paper, we provide a notion of $\infty$-bicategories fibred in $\infty$-bicategories which we call 2-Cartesian fibrations. Our definition is formulated using the language of marked biscaled simplicial sets: Those are scaled…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Fernando Abellán García , Walker H. Stern

Coherence in a monoidal category asserts that all morphisms built from structural isomorphisms with a fixed source and target coincide. These structural isomorphisms include, in particular, the associators. Linearly distributive categories…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Max Demirdilek , Christian Reiher , Christoph Schweigert

In this article, we construct a $2$-category of Lagrangians in a fixed shifted symplectic derived stack S. The objects and morphisms are all given by Lagrangians living on various fiber products. A special case of this gives a $2$-category…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Lino Amorim , Oren Ben-Bassat

Categorical symplectic geometry is the study of a rich collection of invariants of symplectic manifolds, including the Fukaya $A_\infty$-category, Floer cohomology, and symplectic cohomology. Beginning with work of Wehrheim and Woodward in…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Mohammed Abouzaid , Nathaniel Bottman

This note is a contribution written for the second volume of the Encyclopedia of mathematical physics. We give an informal introduction to the notions of an $(\infty,n)$-category and $(\infty,n)$-functor, discussing some of the different…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Viktoriya Ozornova , Martina Rovelli

$A_\infty$ categories are a mathematical structure that appears in topological field theory, string topology, and symplectic topology. This paper studies the cyclic homology of a Calabi-Yau $A_\infty$ category, and shows that it is…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-04-23 Xiaojun Chen

This paper introduces an inherently strict presentation of categories with products, coproducts, or symmetric monoidal products that is inspired by file systems and directories. Rather than using nested binary tuples to combine objects or…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Owen Lynch , Markus Lohmayer