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We consider notions of metrized categories, and then approximate categorical structures defined by a function of three variables generalizing the notion of $2$-metric space. We prove an embedding theorem giving sufficient conditions for an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Abdelkrim Aliouche , Carlos Simpson

Many learning algorithms have invariances: when their training data is transformed in certain ways, the function they learn transforms in a predictable manner. Here we formalize this notion using concepts from the mathematical field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Kenneth D. Harris

Category theory plays a special character in mathematics - it unifies distinct branches under the same formalism. Despite this integrative power in math, it also seems to provide the proper foundations to the experimental physicist. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 L. M. Gaio , B. F. Rizzuti

We introduce the notion of a definable category--a category equivalent to a full subcategory of a locally finitely presentable category that is closed under products, directed colimits and pure subobjects. Definable subcategories are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Amit Kuber , Jiří Rosický

The concept of relative sectional category expands upon classical sectional category theory by incorporating the pullback of a fibration along a map. Our paper aims not only to explore this extension but also to thoroughly investigate its…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Jose Manuel Garcia Calcines

The Ehresmann-Schein-Nambooripad theorem gives a structure theorem for inverse monoids: they are inductive groupoids. A particularly nice case due to Jarek is that commutative inverse monoids become semilattices of abelian groups. It has…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Robin Cockett , Chris Heunen

We classify the prelocalizing subcategories of the category of quasi-coherent sheaves on a locally noetherian scheme. In order to give the classification, we introduce the notion of a local filter of subobjects of the structure sheaf. The…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Ryo Kanda

Rice's theorem shows that nontrivial extensional properties of partial recursive functions are undecidable. For finite weighted Boolean optimization/CSP-style slices, a Rice-style structural analogue holds for tractability classification:…

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Categorification is the process of finding category-theoretic analogs of set-theoretic concepts by replacing sets with categories, functions with functors, and equations between functions by natural isomorphisms between functors, which in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-11-18 John C. Baez , James Dolan

We study, in an abstract axiomatic setting, the notion of sectional category of a morphism. From this, we unify and generalize known results about this invariant in different settings as well as we deduce new applications.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-23 F. Diaz , J. Calcines , P. Garcia , A. Murillo , J. Remedios

A new categorical setting is defined in order to characterize the subrecursive classes belonging to complexity hierarchies. This is achieved by means of coercion functors over a symmetric monoidal category endowed with certain recursion…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Joaquín Díaz Boils

We introduce a notion of compatibility between constraint encoding and compositional structure. Phrased in the language of category theory, it is given by a "composable constraint encoding". We show that every composable constraint encoding…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Matt Wilson , Augustin Vanrietvelde

This manuscript was written for the Proceedings of the ICRA 2022 in Buenos Aires. It can be divided into four parts: The first part is an introduction to the theory of monomorphism categories, including a short survey on some representation…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Sondre Kvamme

Category theory is a branch of mathematics that provides a formal framework for understanding the relationship between mathematical structures. To this end, a category not only incorporates the data of the desired objects, but also…

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It has become obvious in the recent development that the structural Ramsey property is a categorical property: it depends not only on the choice of objects, but also on the choice of morphisms involved. In this paper we explicitely put the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Dragan Masulovic , Lynn Scow

Let $X$ be a $G$-space. In this paper, we introduce the notion of sectional category with respect to $G$. As a result, we obtain $G$-homotopy invariants: the LS category with respect to $G$, the sequential topological complexity with…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Ramandeep Singh Arora , Navnath Daundkar , Soumen Sarkar

We use the terms "$\infty$-categories" and "$\infty$-functors" to mean the objects and morphisms in an "$\infty$-cosmos." Quasi-categories, Segal categories, complete Segal spaces, naturally marked simplicial sets, iterated complete Segal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Emily Riehl , Dominic Verity

Local solutions for variational and quasi-variational inequalities are usually the best type of solutions that could practically be obtained when in case of lack of convexity or else when available numerical techniques are too limited for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Didier Aussel , Parin Chaipunya

We give a new characterization of partial groups as a subcategory of symmetric (simplicial) sets. This subcategory has an explicit reflection, which permits one to compute colimits in the category of partial groups. We also introduce the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Philip Hackney , Justin Lynd