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Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Eric Finster , Samuel Mimram , Maxime Lucas , Thomas Seiller

We prove and explain several classical formulae for homotopy (co)limits in general (combinatorial) model categories which are not necessarily simplicially enriched. Importantly, we prove versions of the Bousfield-Kan formula and the fat…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Sergey Arkhipov , Sebastian Ørsted

In this paper we propose an approach to homotopical algebra where the basic ingredient is a category with two classes of distinguished morphisms: strong and weak equivalences. These data determine the cofibrant objects by an extension…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-09-18 F. Guillen Santos , V. Navarro , P. Pascual , Agusti Roig

In this paper, we revisit the problem of classifying real algebraic and semialgebraic sets by their topological types, focusing on establishing the effectiveness of bounds rather than deriving new quantitative estimates. Building on Hardt's…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Kartoue Mady Demdah , Ibrahim Nonkane

We define a homotopy relation between arrows of a category with weak equivalences, and give a condition under which the quotient by the homotopy relation yields the homotopy category. In the case of the fibrant-cofibrant objects of a model…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Martin Szyld

The structure of the category of matroids and strong maps is investigated: it has coproducts and equalizers, but not products or coequalizers; there are functors from the categories of graphs and vector spaces, the latter being faithful;…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Chris Heunen , Vaia Patta

We define notions of direct and inverse limits in an $n$-category. We prove that the $n+1$-category $nCAT'$ of fibrant $n$-categories admits direct and inverse limits. At the end we speculate (without proofs) on some applications of the…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Carlos Simpson

We introduce the notion of an accessible $\infty$-cosmos and prove that these include the basic examples of $\infty$-cosmoi and are stable under the main constructions. A consequence is that the vast majority of known examples of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-14 John Bourke , Stephen Lack

This paper develops a methodology for representing machine learning models as models of formal theories, grounded in the perspective that machine learning models are a form of database and that databases are models of theories in coherent…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Matthew Pugh , Jo Grundy , Corina Cirstea , Nick Harris

One goal of applied category theory is to better understand networks appearing throughout science and engineering. Here we introduce "structured cospans" as a way to study networks with inputs and outputs. Given a functor $L \colon…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-11 John C. Baez , Kenny Courser

A well-known result of SGA4 shows how to compute the pseudo-colimit of a category-valued pseudo-functor on a 1-category. The main result of this paper gives a generalization of this computation by constructing the weighted pseudo-colimit of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Michael Lambert

Riehl and Verity have established that for a quasi-category $A$ that admits limits, and a homotopy coherent monad on $A$ which does not preserve limits, the Eilenberg-Moore object still admits limits; this can be interpreted as a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Joanna Ko

This paper contains some contributions to the study of the relationship between 2-categories and the homotopy types of their classifying spaces. Mainly, generalizations are given of both Quillen's Theorem B and Thomason's Homotopy Colimit…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-26 Antonio M. Cegarra

In this thesis weighted colimits in 2-categories equipped with promorphisms are studied. Such colimits include most universal constructions with counits, like ordinary colimits in categories, weighted colimits in enriched categories, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Seerp Roald Koudenburg

The Hom closed colocalizing subcategories of the stable module category of a finite group are classified. Along the way, the colocalizing subcategories of the homotopy category of injectives over an exterior algebra, and the derived…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Dave Benson , Srikanth B. Iyengar , Henning Krause

The main purpose of this work is the study of the homotopy theory of dg-categories up to quasi-equivalences. Our main result provides a natural description of the mapping spaces between two dg-categories $C$ and $D$ in terms of the nerve of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Toen

The homotopy category of $N_\infty$ operads is equivalent to a finite lattice, and as the ambient group varies, there are various image constructions between these lattices. In this paper, we explain how to lift this algebraic structure…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Jonathan Rubin

A cocycle category H(X,Y) is defined for objects X and Y in a model category, and it is shown that the set of morphisms [X,Y] is isomorphic to the set of path components of H(X,Y) provided the ambient model category is right proper and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. F. Jardine

We introduce notions of lax semiadditive and lax additive $(\infty,2)$-categories, categorifying the classical notions of semiadditive and additive 1-categories. To establish a well-behaved axiomatic framework, we develop a calculus of lax…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Merlin Christ , Tobias Dyckerhoff , Tashi Walde

We give a self-contained introduction to accessible categories and how they shed light on both model- and set-theoretic questions. We survey for example recent developments on the study of presentability ranks, a notion of cardinality…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Sebastien Vasey