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We establish a categorical framework relating two canonical model constructions in first-order logic: the Henkin construction and compactness-based constructions via ultraproducts or saturation. By introducing a globally fixed set of Henkin…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Barreto Joaquim Reizi

We study a number of categorical quasi-uniform structures induced by functors. We depart from a category $\mathcal{C}$ with a proper $(\mathcal{E}, \mathcal{M})$-factorization system, then define the continuity of a $\mathcal{C}$-morphism…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Minani Iragi , David Holgate

Compositionality is at the heart of computer science and several other areas of applied category theory such as computational linguistics, categorical quantum mechanics, interpretable AI, dynamical systems, compositional game theory, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Caterina Puca , Amar Hadzihasanovic , Fabrizio Genovese , Bob Coecke

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

We develop an analytical framework for Boolean Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems (PCSPs) that studies polymorphisms through the notion of influence from Fourier analysis of Boolean functions. Extending the work of Brakensiek,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Demian Banakh , Katzper Michno

We study concrete sheaf models for a call-by-value higher-order language with recursion. Our family of sheaf models is a generalization of many examples from the literature, such as models for probabilistic and differentiable programming,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Cristina Matache , Sean Moss , Sam Staton

The semiring-based constraint satisfaction problems (semiring CSPs), proposed by Bistarelli, Montanari and Rossi \cite{BMR97}, is a very general framework of soft constraints. In this paper we propose an abstraction scheme for soft…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Sanjiang Li , Mingsheng Ying

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

For a rigid object $M$ in an algebraic triangulated category $\mathcal{T}$, a functor pr$(M)\to\mathcal{H}^{[-1,0]}({\rm proj}\, A)$ is constructed, which essentially takes an object to its `presentation', where pr$(M)$ is the full…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Dong Yang

The compactness theorem for a logic states, roughly, that the satisfiability of a set of well-formed formulas can be determined from the satisfiability of its finite subsets, and vice versa. Usually, proofs of this theorem depend on the…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Sayantan Roy , Sankha S. Basu , Mihir K. Chakraborty

We prove a number of results of the following common flavor: for a category $\mathcal{C}$ of topological or uniform spaces with all manner of other properties of common interest (separation / completeness / compactness axioms), a group (or…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Alexandru Chirvasitu

To characterize categorical constraints - associativity, commutativity and monoidality - in the context of quasimonoidal categories, from a cohomological point of view, we define the notion of a parity (quasi)complex. Applied to groups…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lucian M. Ionescu

We develop a constructive theory of finite multisets in Homotopy Type Theory, defining them as free commutative monoids. After recalling basic structural properties of the free commutative-monoid construction, we formalise and establish the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Vikraman Choudhury , Marcelo Fiore

We construct a compact closed category out of any symmetric monoidal category by freely adding adjoints to its objects. The morphisms of the completion are defined as string diagrams annotated by objects and morphisms from the original…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Antonin Delpeuch

We show that either of the two reasonable choices for the category of compact quantum groups is nice enough to allow for a plethora of universal constructions, all obtained "by abstract nonsense" via the adjoint functor theorem. This…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Alexandru Chirvasitu

We exhibit an adjunction between a category of abstract algebras of partial functions and a category of set quotients. The algebras are those atomic algebras representable as a collection of partial functions closed under relative…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Célia Borlido , Brett McLean

Following the success of the so-called algebraic approach to the study of decision constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), exact optimization of valued CSPs, and most recently promise CSPs, we propose an algebraic framework for valued…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Libor Barto , Silvia Butti , Alexandr Kazda , Caterina Viola , Stanislav Živný

We provide a unified framework to study hierarchies of relaxations for Constraint Satisfaction Problems and their Promise variant. The idea is to split the description of a hierarchy into an algebraic part, depending on a minion capturing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Lorenzo Ciardo , Stanislav Živný

Let $\mathcal{X}$ be a resolving and contravariantly finite subcategory of $\rm{mod}\mbox{-}\Lambda$, the category of finitely generated right $\Lambda$-modules. We associate to $\mathcal{X}$ the subcategory…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Rasool Hafezi , Intan Muchtadi-Alamsyah

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be an additive category. The nilpotent category $\mathrm{Nil} (\mathcal{C})$ of $\mathcal{C}$, consists of objects pairs $(X, x)$ with $X\in\mathcal{C}, x\in\mathrm{End}_{\mathcal{C}}(X)$ such that $x^n=0$ for some…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Zhiwei Bai , Xiang Cao , Songtao Mao , Han Zhang , Yuehui Zhang