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We consider an action of a countable amenable group on a compact metric space, focusing on the set of generic points with respect to a fixed F{\o}lner sequence. For a given characteristic class, we prove that the set of points that are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Sejal Babel , Martha Łącka , Marcel Mroczek

In this short paper, using category theory, we argue that logical rules can be seen as fractions and logics as limit sketches.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Dominique Duval

Sketches, probabilistic structures for estimating item frequencies in infinite data streams with limited space, are widely used across various domains. Recent studies have shifted the focus from handcrafted sketches to neural sketches,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yuan Feng , Yukun Cao , Hairu Wang , Xike Xie , S Kevin Zhou

Sketch drawings capture the salient information of visual concepts. Previous work has shown that neural networks are capable of producing sketches of natural objects drawn from a small number of classes. While earlier approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Alexander Wang , Mengye Ren , Richard S. Zemel

We present a sketch-based CAD modeling system, where users create objects incrementally by sketching the desired shape edits, which our system automatically translates to CAD operations. Our approach is motivated by the close similarities…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Changjian Li , Hao Pan , Adrien Bousseau , Niloy J. Mitra

Given a database, computing the fraction of rows that contain a query itemset or determining whether this fraction is above some threshold are fundamental operations in data mining. A uniform sample of rows is a good sketch of the database…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Edo Liberty , Michael Mitzenmacher , Justin Thaler , Jonathan Ullman

This article introduces Hilbert $*$-categories: an abstraction of categories with similar algebraic and analytic properties to the categories of real, complex, and quaternionic Hilbert spaces and bounded linear maps. Other examples include…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Matthew Di Meglio , Chris Heunen

Topologists are sometimes interested in space-valued diagrams over a given index category, but it is tricky to say what such a diagram even is if we look for a notion that is stable under equivalence. The same happens in (homotopy) type…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Nicolai Kraus , Christian Sattler

Sketches have shown high accuracy in multi-way join cardinality estimation, a critical problem in cost-based query optimization. Accurately estimating the cardinality of a join operation -- analogous to its computational cost -- allows the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Brian Tsan , Abylay Amanbayev , Asoke Datta , Florin Rusu

Restriction categories were introduced to provide an axiomatic setting for the study of partially defined mappings; they are categories equipped with an operation called restriction which assigns to every morphism an endomorphism of its…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Robin Cockett , Richard Garner

We identify a connection between the approximability of CSPs in two models: (i) sublinear space streaming algorithms, and (ii) the basic LP relaxation. We show that whenever the basic LP admits an integrality gap, there is an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Noah G. Singer , Madhur Tulsiani , Santhoshini Velusamy

This paper is the first in a series of two papers, $\mathbf{Z}$-Categories I and $\mathbf{Z}$-Categories II, which develop the notion of $\mathbf{Z}$-category, the natural bi-infinite analog to strict $\omega$-categories, and show that the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Paul Lessard

We define and study the $(\infty,2)$-category $\mathbf{Cat}_{\infty}(\mathcal{C})$ of $(\infty,1)$-categories internal to a general $(\infty,1)$-category $\mathcal{C}$ via an associated externalization construction. In the first part, we…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Raffael Stenzel

Homotopy limits and colimits are homotopical replacements for the usual limits and colimits of category theory, which can be approached either using classical explicit constructions or the modern abstract machinery of derived functors. Our…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-07-01 Michael Shulman

We introduce shortcut graphs and groups. Shortcut graphs are graphs in which cycles cannot embed without metric distortion. Shortcut groups are groups which act properly and cocompactly on shortcut graphs. These notions unify a surprisingly…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Nima Hoda

We prove that a connected, locally finite, quasi-transitive graph which is quasi-isometric to a planar graph is necessarily accessible. This leads to a complete classification of the finitely generated groups which are quasi-isometric to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Joseph Paul MacManus

We study homotopy theory of the category of spectral sequences with respect to the class of weak equivalences given by maps which are quasi-isomorphisms on a fixed page. We introduce the category of extended spectral sequences and show that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Muriel Livernet , Sarah Whitehouse

We show that the category of pastures has arbitrary limits and colimits of diagrams indexed by a small category.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Steven Creech

In the standard Category of Graphs, the graphs allow only one edge to be incident to any two vertices, not necessarily distinct, and the graph morphisms must map edges to edges and vertices to vertices while preserving incidence. We refer…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-11-29 George McRae , Demitri Plessas , Liam Rafferty

A new approach is suggested to the problem of quantising causal sets, or topologies, or other such models for space-time (or space). The starting point is the observation that entities of this type can be regarded as objects in a category…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Isham