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We characterize virtual double categories of enriched categories, functors, and profunctors by introducing a new notion of double-categorical colimits. Our characterization is strict in the sense that it is up to equivalence between virtual…

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We introduce a notion of complexity of diagrams (and in particular of objects and morphisms) in an arbitrary category, as well as a notion of complexity of functors between categories equipped with complexity functions. We discuss several…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Saugata Basu , M. Umut Isik

We present the notion of "cyclic double multicategory", as a structure in which to organise multivariable adjunctions and mates. The classic example of a 2-variable adjunction is the hom/tensor/cotensor trio of functors; we generalise this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-24 Eugenia Cheng , Nick Gurski , Emily Riehl

We define duality triples and duality pairs in compactly generated triangulated categories and investigate their properties. This enables us to give an elementary way to determine whether a class is closed under pure subobjects, pure…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Isaac Bird , Jordan Williamson

The bicategorical point of view provides a natural setting for many concepts in the representation theory of monoidal categories. We show that centers of twisted bimodule categories correspond to categories of 2-dimensional natural…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Bojana Femić , Sebastian Halbig

We specialise a recently introduced notion of generalised dinaturality for functors $T : (\mathcal{C}^\text{op})^p \times \mathcal{C}^q \to \mathcal{D}$ to the case where the domain (resp., codomain) is constant, obtaining notions of ends…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Fosco Loregian , Emily de Oliveira Santos

A topologically-invariant and additive homology class is mostly not a natural transformation as it is. In this paper we discuss turning such a homology class into a natural transformation; i.e., a "categorification" of it. In a general…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-21 Joerg Schuermann , Shoji Yokura

We introduce a new categorical framework for studying derived functors, and in particular for comparing composites of left and right derived functors. Our central observation is that model categories are the objects of a double category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Michael Shulman

In this paper we give a purely categorical construction of d-fold matrix factorizations of a natural transformation, for any even integer d. This recovers the classical definition of those for regular elements in commutative rings due to…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Petter Andreas Bergh , David A. Jorgensen

We propose a definition of double categories whose composition of 1-cells is weak in both directions. Namely, a doubly weak double category is a double computad -- a structure with 2-cells of all possible double-categorical shapes --…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Aaron David Fairbanks , Michael Shulman

As an example of the categorical apparatus of pseudo algebras over 2-theories, we show that pseudo algebras over the 2-theory of categories can be viewed as pseudo double categories with folding or as appropriate 2-functors into…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Thomas M. Fiore

From every pair of adjoint functors it is possible to produce a (possibly trivial) equivalence of categories by restricting to the subcategories where the unit and counit are isomorphisms. If we do this for the adjunction between effect…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Robert Furber

We define natural A_infinity-transformations and construct A_infinity-category of A_infinity-functors. The notion of non-strict units in an A_infinity-category is introduced. The 2-category of (unital) A_infinity-categories, (unital)…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-17 Volodymyr Lyubashenko

We show that the positive zoom complexes, with fairly natural morphisms, form a dual category to the category of positive opetopes with contraction epimorphisms. We also show how this duality can be extended to opetopic cardinals.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Marek Zawadowski

We give a simple construction of the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand sequences of natural differential operators on a manifold equipped with a parabolic geometry. This method permits us to define the additional structure of a bilinear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David M. J. Calderbank , Tammo Diemer

Interest in weak cubical n-categories arises in various contexts, in particular in topological field theories. In this paper, we describe a concept of double bicategory, namely a strict model of the theory of bicategories in Bicat. We show…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-15 Jeffrey C. Morton

We establish that the unusual two-form gauge transformations needed in the Green-Schwarz anomaly cancellation mechanism fit naturally into an $\alpha'$-deformed generalized geometry. The algebra of gauge transformations is a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Olaf Hohm , Barton Zwiebach

We develop the theory of 2-quivers and quiver 2-categories to run in parallel with the classical theory of quiver algebras. A quiver 2-category is always finitary, and, conversely, every finitary 2-category will be bi-equivalent with a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Qimh Richey Xantcha

We give two examples of categorical axioms asserting that a canonically defined natural transformation is invertible where the invertibility of any natural transformation implies that the canonical one is invertible. The first example is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-03 Stephen Lack

The notion of pseudocategory, as considered in [11], is extended from the context of a 2-category to the more general one of a sesquicategory, which is considered as a category equipped with a 2-cell structure. Some particular examples of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-21 N. Martins-Ferreira