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Affine schemes can be understood as objects of the opposite of the category of commutative and unital algebras. Similarly, $\mathscr{P}$-affine schemes can be defined as objects of the opposite of the category of algebras over an operad…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Marcello Lanfranchi

We point out that double categories provide a natural setting for modular functors obtained by a (bicategorical) string-net construction: The source of the modular functor -- which is now a double functor -- is a symmetric monoidal double…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Jürgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert , Yang Yang

We construct a functor from the category of oriented tangles in R^3 to the category of Hermitian modules and Lagrangian relations over Z[t,t^{-1}]. This functor extends the Burau representations of the braid groups and its generalization to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-08-09 David Cimasoni , Vladimir Turaev

In this paper we show that if $\mathscr{C}$ is a tangent category then the Ind-category $\operatorname{Ind}(\mathscr{C})$ is a tangent category as well with a tangent structure which locally looks like the tangent structure on…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Geoff Vooys

We give an introduction to constructive category theory by answering two guiding computational questions. The first question is: how do we compute the set of all natural transformations between two finitely presented functors like…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Sebastian Posur

Categorical bundles provide a natural framework for gauge theories involving multiple gauge groups. Unlike the case of traditional bundles there are distinct notions of triviality, and hence also of local triviality, for categorical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Saikat Chatterjee , Amitabha Lahiri , Ambar N. Sengupta

Tangent category theory is a well-established categorical context for differential geometry. In a previous paper, a formal approach was adopted to provide a genuine Grothendieck construction in the context of tangent categories by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Marcello Lanfranchi

Let $G$ be a finite group. In [HTW], Hambleton, Taylor and Williams have considered the question of comparing Mackey functors for $G$ and biset functors defined on subgroups of $G$ and bifree bisets as morphisms. This paper proposes a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Serge Bouc

We show that the category of affine bundles over a smooth manifold M is equivalent to the category of affine spaces modelled on projective finitely generated C^\infty(M)-modules. Using this equivalence of categories, we are able to give an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-30 Thomas Leuther

The Fa\`a di Bruno construction, introduced by Cockett and Seely, constructs a comonad $\mathsf{Fa{\grave{a}}}$ whose coalgebras are precisely Cartesian differential categories. In other words, for a Cartesian left additive category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Jean-Simon Lemay

We establish a calculus of differences for taut endofunctors of the category of sets, analogous to the classical calculus of finite differences for real valued functions. We study how the difference operator interacts with limits and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Robert Paré

We consider two principal bundles of embeddings with total space $Emb(M,N),$ with structure groups $Diff(M)$ and $Diff_+(M),$ where $Diff_+(M)$ is the groups of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms. The aim of this paper is to describe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Jean-Pierre Magnot

We study tangent spaces in the setting of diffeological spaces. Several distinct tangent functors have been introduced, each of which extends the classical tangent functor from smooth manifolds. In this paper, we construct infinitely many…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Masaki Taho

Differential categories provide the categorical foundations for the algebraic approaches to differentiation. They have been successful in formalizing various important concepts related to differentiation, such as, in particular,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay , Chiara Sava

Let $X$ be a smooth algebraic variety over $k$. We prove that any flat quasicoherent sheaf on $\operatorname{Ran}(X)$ canonically acquires a D-module structure. In addition, we prove that, if the geometric fiber $X_{\overline{k}}$ is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-20 James Tao

We extend Deligne's notion of determinant functor to tensor triangulated categories. Specifically, to account for the multiexact structure of the tensor, we define a determinant functor on the 2-multicategory of triangulated categories and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Ettore Aldrovandi , Cynthia Lester

Let $R$ be a commutative unital ring. We construct a category $\mathcal{C}_R$ of fractions $X/G$, where $G$ is a finite group and $X$ is a finite $G$-set, and with morphisms given by $R$-linear combinations of spans of bisets. This category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Jesús Ibarra , Alberto G. Raggi-Cárdenas , Nadia Romero

We show under suitable finiteness conditions that a functor between abelian categories induces a (not necessarily additive) map between their Grothendieck groups. This is related to the derived functors of Dold and Puppe, and generalizes a…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Niels uit de Bos , Lenny Taelman

We establish a correspondence between modules and spans of algebras within a general monoidal 2-category $\mathfrak{C}$. Specifically, for an algebra $A$ in $\mathfrak{C}$, we construct a normalized lax 3-functor from the 2-category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Hao Xu

Additive categories play a fundamental role in mathematics and related disciplines. Given an additive category equipped with a biadditive functor, one can construct its category of extensions, which encodes important structural information.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Raphael Bennett-Tennenhaus , Johanne Haugland , Mads Hustad Sandøy , Amit Shah