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Neural networks systematically fail at compositional generalization -- producing correct outputs for novel combinations of known parts. We show that this failure is architectural: compositional generalization is equivalent to functoriality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Karen Sargsyan

We construct a wide subcategory of the category of finite association schemes with a collection of desirable properties. Our subcategory has a first isomorphism theorem analogous to that of groups. Also, standard constructions taking…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Christopher French

We introduce the concept of quantum polymorphisms to the complexity theory of quantum constraint satisfaction. Via this notion, we build an algebraic framework of reductions between quantum CSPs, and we establish a Galois connection between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Lorenzo Ciardo , Gideo Joubert , Antoine Mottet

The question "What is category theory" is approached by focusing on universal mapping properties and adjoint functors. Category theory organizes mathematics using morphisms that transmit structure and determination. Structures of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Ellerman

We give a self-contained introduction to accessible categories and how they shed light on both model- and set-theoretic questions. We survey for example recent developments on the study of presentability ranks, a notion of cardinality…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Sebastien Vasey

Classically, regular homomorphisms have been defined as a replacement for Abel--Jacobi maps for smooth varieties over an algebraically closed field. In this work, we interpret regular homomorphisms as morphisms from the functor of families…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Jeff Achter , Sebastian Casalaina-Martin , Charles Vial

The present work proposes and discusses the category of supported sets which provides a uniform foundation for nominal sets of various kinds, such as those for equality symmetry, for the order symmetry, and renaming sets. We show that all…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Thorsten Wißmann

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

The intention of this survey to collect in one paper many recent results and advances related with Bergman type projection acting in various spaces of analytic functions in several complex variables in the unit ball, tubular domains over…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-11-14 R. F. Shamoyan , M. G. Bashmakova

Category theory has foundational importance because it provides conceptual lenses to characterize what is important in mathematics. Originally the main lenses were universal mapping properties and natural transformations. In recent decades,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Ellerman

In the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP for short) the goal is to decide the existence of a homomorphism from a given relational structure $G$ to a given relational structure $H$. If the structure $H$ is fixed and $G$ is the only input,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andrei A. Bulatov , Amirhossein Kazeminia

In this paper, by using functor rings and functor categories, we study finiteness and purity of subcategories of the module categories. We give a characterisation of contravariantly finite resolving subcategories of the module category of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Ziba Fazelpour , Alireza Nasr-Isfahani

We construct an exact tensor functor from the category $\mathcal{A}$ of finite-dimensional graded modules over the quiver Hecke algebra of type $A_\infty$ to the category $\mathscr C_{B^{(1)}_n}$ of finite-dimensional integrable modules…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Masaki Kashiwara , Myungho Kim , Se-jin Oh

A morphism of a category which is simultaneously an epimorphism and a monomorphism is called a bimorphism. In \cite{DR2} we gave characterizations of monomorphisms (resp. epimorphisms) in arbitrary pro-categories, pro-(C), where (C) has…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-27 J. Dydak , F. R. Ruiz del Portal

Polynomial functors are useful in the theory of data types, where they are often called containers. They are also useful in algebra, combinatorics, topology, and higher category theory, and in this broader perspective the polynomial aspect…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Joachim Kock

Containers represent a wide class of type constructions relevant for functional programming and (co)inductive reasoning. Indexed containers generalize this notion to better fit the scope of dependently typed programming. When interpreting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Michele De Pascalis , Tarmo Uustalu , Niccolò Veltrì

We present theoretical and practical results on the order theory of lattices of functions, focusing on Galois connections that abstract (sets of) functions - a topic known as higher-order abstract interpretation. We are motivated by the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Louis Rustenholz , Pedro Lopez-Garcia , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

We study categories whose objects are the braid representations, i.e. strict monoidal functors $F\colon B\rightarrow Mat$ from the braid category $B$ to the category of matrices $Mat$. Braid representations are equivalent to solutions to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-24 P. P. Martin , E. C. Rowell , F. Torzewska

This paper formulates a notion of independence of subobjects of an object in a general (i.e. not necessarily concrete) category. Subobject independence is the categorial generalization of what is known as subsystem independence in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Zalán Gyenis , Miklós Rédei

This article is first in a series of papers where we reprove the statements in constructing the Enhanced Operation Map and the abstract six-functor formalism developed by Liu-Zheng. In this paper, we prove a theorem regarding constructing…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Chirantan Chowdhury