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A type theory is presented that combines (intuitionistic) linear types with type dependency, thus properly generalising both intuitionistic dependent type theory and full linear logic. A syntax and complete categorical semantics are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Matthijs Vákár

Pursuing a generalization of group symmetries of modular categories to category symmetries in topological phases of matter, we study linear Hopf monads. The main goal is a generalization of extension and gauging group symmetries to category…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Shawn X. Cui , Modjtaba Shokrian Zini , Zhenghan Wang

Quantization problems suggest that the category of symplectic manifolds and symplectomorphisms be augmented by the inclusion of canonical relations as morphisms. These relations compose well when a transversality condition is satisfied, but…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-24 Alan Weinstein

Restriction categories provide a categorical framework for partiality. In this paper, we introduce three new categorical theories for partiality: local categories, partial categories, and inclusion categories. The objects of a local…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Marcello Lanfranchi , Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay

Bilinear maps and their classifying tensor products are well-known in the theory of linear algebra, and their generalization to algebras of commutative monads is a classical result of monad theory. Motivated by constructions needed in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Tomáš Jakl , Dan Marsden , Nihil Shah

We introduce the basic notions and present examples and results on Lie categories -- categories internal to the category of smooth manifolds. Demonstrating how the units of a Lie category $\mathcal C$ dictate the behavior of its invertible…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Žan Grad

A subunit in a monoidal category is a subobject of the monoidal unit for which a canonical morphism is invertible. They correspond to open subsets of a base topological space in categories such as those of sheaves or Hilbert modules. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Pau Enrique Moliner , Chris Heunen , Sean Tull

Categorical universal algebra can be developed either using Lawvere theories (single-sorted finite product theories) or using monads, and the category of Lawvere theories is equivalent to the category of finitary monads on Set. We show how…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-14 Stephen Lack , Jiri Rosicky

We consider the ordinary category Span(C) of (isomorphism classes of) spans of morphisms in a category C with finite limits as needed, composed horizontally via pullback, and give a general criterion for a quotient of Span(C) to be an…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-10 S. Naser Hosseini , Amir R. Shir Ali Nasab , Walter Tholen , Leila Yeganeh

In categories of linear relations between finite dimensional vector spaces, composition is well-behaved only at pairs of relations satisfying transversality and monicity conditions. A construction of Wehrheim and Woodward makes it possible…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Alan Weinstein

We give the definition of presentations of linear monoidal categories. Our main result is that given a presentation of a linear monoidal category, we can produce a presentation of the same category as a linear category. We apply this result…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Bingyan Liu

It is well-known that small categories have equivalent descriptions as partial monoids. We provide a formulation of partial monoid and partial monoid homomorphism involving $s$ and $t$ instead of identities and then following a recent…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Rachel A. D. Martins

The usual coherence theorem of MacLane for categories with multiplication assumes that a certain pentagonal diagram commutes in order to conclude that associativity isomorphisms are well defined in a certain practical sense. The practical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-04 Matthew G. Brin

We show how the categorial approach to inverse monoids can be described as a certain endofunctor (which we call the partialization functor) of some category. In this paper we show that this functor can be used to obtain several recently…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-02 Ganna Kudryavtseva , Volodymyr Mazorchuk

We study arithmetic properties of factorizations of elements into products of generators, in monoids given with explicit presentations. After relating and comparing this perspective to the more usual approach of factoring into products of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Alfred Geroldinger , Zachary Mesyan

A certain amount of category theory is developed in an arbitrary finitely complete category with a factorization system on it, playing the role of the comprehensive factorization system on Cat. Those aspects related to the concepts of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-07 Claudio Pisani

We show that the $n-$th symmetric product of an affine scheme $X=\mathrm{Spec} A$ over a characteristic zero field is isomorphic as a scheme to the quotient by the general linear group of the scheme parameterizing $n-$dimensional linear…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Vaccarino

Extensivity of a category may be described as a property of coproducts in the category, namely, that they are disjoint and universal. An alternative viewpoint is that it is a property of morphisms in a category. This paper explores this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Michael Hoefnagel , Emma Theart

Given a nonempty set $\mathcal{L}$ of linear orders, we say that the linear order $L$ is $\mathcal{L}$-convex embeddable into the linear order $L'$ if it is possible to partition $L$ into convex sets indexed by some element of $\mathcal{L}$…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Martina Iannella , Alberto Marcone , Luca Motto Ros , Vadim Weinstein

Wehrheim and Woodward have shown how to embed all the canonical relations between symplectic manifolds into a category in which the composition is the usual one when transversality and embedding assumptions are satisfied. A morphism in…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-14 Alan Weinstein