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We study limits in 2-categories whose objects are categories with extra structure and whose morphisms are functors preserving the structure only up to a coherent comparison map, which may or may not be required to be invertible. This is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-20 Stephen Lack , Michael Shulman

Restriction categories were established to handle maps that are partially defined with respect to composition. Tensor topology realises that monoidal categories have an intrinsic notion of space, and deals with objects and maps that are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-11 C. Heunen , J. S. Pacaud Lemay

We show that if A is an abelian category satisfying certain mild conditions, then one can introduce the concept of a moduli space of (semi)stable objects which has the structure of a projective algebraic variety. This idea is applied to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Vyacheslav Futorny , Marcos Jardim , Adriano Moura

Generalized operads, also called generalized multicategories and $T$-monoids, are defined as monads within a Kleisli bicategory. With or without emphasizing their monoidal nature, generalized operads have been considered by numerous authors…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Dimitri Chikhladze

We study monoidal categories that enjoy a certain weakening of the rigidity property, namely, the existence of a dualizing object in the sense of Grothendieck and Verdier. We call them Grothendieck-Verdier categories. Notable examples…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Mitya Boyarchenko , Vladimir Drinfeld

Based on the novel notion of `weakly counital fusion morphism', regular weak multiplier bimonoids in braided monoidal categories are introduced. They generalize weak multiplier bialgebras over fields and multiplier bimonoids in braided…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Gabriella Böhm , José Goméz-Torrecillas , Stephen Lack

We provide definitions for strict involutive higher categories (a vertical categorification of dagger categories), strict higher C*-categories and higher Fell bundles (over arbitrary involutive higher topological categories). We put forward…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Paolo Bertozzini , Roberto Conti , Wicharn Lewkeeratiyutkul , Noppakhun Suthichitranont

The goal of this paper is to associate functorially to every symmetric monoidal additive category $\mathbf{A}$ with a strict $G$-action a lax symmetric monoidal functor $\mathbf{V}_{\mathbf{A}}^{G}:G\mathbf{BornCoarse}\to…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Ulrich Bunke , Luigi Caputi

In this work we solve the problem of providing a Morita invariant definition of Lie and Courant algebroids over Lie groupoids. By relying on supergeometry, we view these structures as instances of vector fields on graded groupoids which are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Daniel Álvarez , Miquel Cueca

We develop foundations for oriented category theory, an extension of $(\infty,\infty)$-category theory obtained by systematic usage of the Gray tensor product, in order to study lax phenomena in higher category theory. As categorical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 David Gepner , Hadrian Heine

This is the first part of a series of three strongly related papers in which three equivalent structures are studied: - internal categories in categories of monoids; defined in terms of pullbacks relative to a chosen class of spans -…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Gabriella Böhm

We develop the idea of a supersymmetric monoidal supercategory, following ideas of Kapranov. Roughly, this is a monoidal category in which the objects and morphisms are ${\bf Z}/2$-graded, equipped with isomorphisms $X \otimes Y \to Y…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Steven V Sam , Andrew Snowden

We study the behavior of the modular class of a Lie algebroid under general Lie algebroid morphisms by introducing the relative modular class. We investigate the modular classes of pull-back morphisms and of base-preserving morphisms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-18 Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach , Camille Laurent-Gengoux , Alan Weinstein

Given an additive equational category with a closed symmetric monoidal structure and a potential dualizing object, we find sufficient conditions that the category of topological objects over that category has a good notion of full…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Michael Barr

Leclerc recently studied certain Frobenius categories in connection with cluster algebra structures on coordinate rings of intersections of opposite Schubert cells. We show that these categories admit a description as Gorenstein projective…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Martin Kalck

Constructions of spectra from symmetric monoidal categories are typically functorial with respect to strict structure-preserving maps, but often the maps of interest are merely lax monoidal. We describe conditions under which one can…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Nick Gurski , Niles Johnson , Angélica M. Osorno

Monads are well known to be equivalent to lax functors out of the terminal category. Morita contexts are here shown to be lax functors out of the chaotic category with two objects. This allows various aspects in the theory of Morita…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Stephen Lack

We axiomatize the extended operators in topological orders (possibly gravitationally anomalous, possibly with degenerate ground states) in terms of monoidal Karoubi-complete $n$-categories which are mildly dualizable and have trivial…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Theo Johnson-Freyd

Notions of generalized multicategory have been defined in numerous contexts throughout the literature, and include such diverse examples as symmetric multicategories, globular operads, Lawvere theories, and topological spaces. In each case,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-01 G. S. H. Cruttwell , Michael A. Shulman

In this paper we describe a homotopy torsion theory in the category of small symmetric monoidal categories. Thanks to the use of natural isomorphisms as basis for the nullhomotopy structure, this homotopy torsion theory enjoys some…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Mariano Messora