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We develop a number of basic concepts in the theory of categories internal to an $\infty$-topos. We discuss adjunctions, limits and colimits as well as Kan extensions for internal categories, and we use these results to prove the universal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Louis Martini , Sebastian Wolf

In this work, we investigate an effective method for showing that functors between categories are left adjoints. The method applies to a large class of categories, namely locally finitely presentable categories, which are ubiquitous in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Simon Forest

Every right adjoint functor between presentable $\infty$-categories is shown to decompose canonically as a coreflection, followed by, possibly transfinitely many, monadic functors. Furthermore, the coreflection part is given a presentation…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Lior Yanovski

In the first part of this paper we study fibrations of $(\infty,2)$-categories. We give a simple characterization of such fibrations in terms of a certain square being a pullback, and apply this to show that in some cases…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Fernando Abellán , Rune Haugseng , Louis Martini

There is some consensus among orthodox category theorists that the concept of adjoint functors is the most important concept contributed to mathematics by category theory. We give a heterodox treatment of adjoints using heteromorphisms…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-18 David Ellerman

Internal categories feature notions of limit and completeness, as originally proposed in the context of the effective topos. This paper sets out the theory of internal completeness in a general context, spelling out the details of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Enrico Ghiorzi

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

We survey the basics of homological algebra in exact categories in the sense of Quillen. All diagram lemmas are proved directly from the axioms, notably the five lemma, the 3 x 3-lemma and the snake lemma. We briefly discuss exact functors,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2009-04-22 Theo Buehler

Thomason's Homotopy Colimit Theorem has been extended to bicategories and this extension can be adapted, through the delooping principle, to a corresponding theorem for diagrams of monoidal categories. In this version, we show that the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-24 A. R. Garzón , R. Pérez

Badzioch showed that in the category of simplicial sets each homotopy algebra of a Lawvere theory is weakly equivalent to a strict algebra. In seeking to extend this result to other contexts Rosicky observed a key point to be that each…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 John Bourke

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

Graduated locally finitely presentable categories are introduced, examples include categories of sets, vector spaces, posets, presheaves and Boolean algebras. A finitary functor between graduated locally finitely presentable categories is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Jirí Adámek , Lurdes Sousa

A folklore result in category theory is that a (weakly) Cartesian closed category with finite co-products is distributive. Usually, the proof of this small result is carried on using the fact that the exponential functor is right adjoint to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-16 Marco Benini

In this paper, we extend a result of Lafont and M{\'e}tayer and prove that the polygraphic homology of a small category, defined in terms of polygraphic resolutions in the category $\omega$Cat of strict $\omega$-categories, is naturally…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Léonard Guetta

We present the type theory CaTT, originally introduced by Finster and Mimram to describe globular weak $\omega$-categories, and we formalise this theory in the language of homotopy type theory. Most of the studies about this type theory…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Thibaut Benjamin

In a previous article, we introduced notions of finiteness obstruction, Euler characteristic, and L^2-Euler characteristic for wide classes of categories. In this sequel, we prove the compatibility of those notions with homotopy colimits of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-28 Thomas M. Fiore , Wolfgang Lück , Roman Sauer

Categories are coreflectively embedded in multicategories via the "discrete cocone" construction, the right adjoint being given by the monoid construction. Furthermore, the adjunction lifts to the "cartesian level": preadditive categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Claudio Pisani

We show that contrary to appearances, Multimodal Type Theory (MTT) over a 2-category M can be interpreted in any M-shaped diagram of categories having, and functors preserving, M-sized limits, without the need for extra left adjoints. This…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Michael Shulman

In a previous work, by extending the classical Quillen construction to the non-simply connected case, we have built a pair of adjoint functors, 'model' and 'realization', between the categories of simplicial sets and complete differential…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Urtzi Buijs , Yves Félix , Aniceto Murillo , Daniel Tanré

This paper develops a methodology for representing machine learning models as models of formal theories, grounded in the perspective that machine learning models are a form of database and that databases are models of theories in coherent…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Matthew Pugh , Jo Grundy , Corina Cirstea , Nick Harris