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We prove that the arrow category of a monoidal model category, equipped with the pushout product monoidal structure and the projective model structure, is a monoidal model category. This answers a question posed by Mark Hovey, and has the…

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We introduce the notion of symplectic microfolds and symplectic micromorphisms between them. They form a monoidal category, which is a version of the "category" of symplectic manifolds and canonical relations obtained by localizing them…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Alberto S. Cattaneo , Benoit Dherin , Alan Weinstein

Let M be a smooth compact manifold with boundary. Under some geometric conditions on M, a homotopical model for the pair (M,boundary of M) can be recovered from the configuration category of the interior of M. The grouplike monoid of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Michael S Weiss

In this paper we study compact closed categories within the context of homotopical algebra. We construct two new model category structures by localizing two (Quillen equivalent) model categories of symmetric monoidal categories with the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Amit Sharma

We study the category of Reedy diagrams in a $\mm$-model category. Explicitly, we show that if K is a small category, V is a closed symmetric monoidal category and C is a closed V-module, then the diagram category V^K is a closed symmetric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Moncef Ghazel , Fethi Kadhi

We introduce a notion of parity for formal morphisms between invertible objects and use it to prove a corresponding coherence theorem. Parity is conceptually similar to the sign of underlying permutations, but not defined as such. To give…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Nick Gurski , Niles Johnson

The linear decomposition attack provides a serious obstacle to direct applications of noncommutative groups and monoids (or semigroups) in cryptography. To overcome this issue we propose to look at monoids with only big representations, in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Mikhail Khovanov , Maithreya Sitaraman , Daniel Tubbenhauer

This paper introduces an inherently strict presentation of categories with products, coproducts, or symmetric monoidal products that is inspired by file systems and directories. Rather than using nested binary tuples to combine objects or…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Owen Lynch , Markus Lohmayer

There is a hidden intrigue in the title. CT is one of the most abstract mathematical disciplines, sometimes nicknamed "abstract nonsense". MDE is a recent trend in software development, industrially supported by standards, tools, and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-10 Zinovy Diskin , Tom Maibaum

It is well known that the category of Gray-categories does not admit a monoidal biclosed structure that models weak higher-dimensional transformations. In this paper, the first of a series on the topic, we describe several skew monoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-10 John Bourke , Gabriele Lobbia

Braided deformations of (symmetric) monoidal categories are related to Vassiliev theory by a direct generalization of well-known results relating "quantum" knot invariants to Vassiliev invariants. The deformation theory of braidings is…

q-alg · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David N. Yetter

Long before the invention of Feynman diagrams, engineers were using similar diagrams to reason about electrical circuits and more general networks containing mechanical, hydraulic, thermodynamic and chemical components. We can formalize…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-22 John C. Baez , Brandon Coya , Franciscus Rebro

We give a conceptual treatment of the notion of joints, marginals, and independence in the setting of categorical probability. This is achieved by endowing the usual probability monads (like the Giry monad) with a monoidal and an opmonoidal…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Tobias Fritz , Paolo Perrone

In this work, we design a multi-category inverse design neural network to map ordered periodic structure to physical parameters. The neural network model consists of two parts, a classifier and Structure-Parameter-Mapping (SPM) subnets. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-26 Dan Wei , Tiejun Zhou , Yunqing Huang , Kai Jiang

Probability theory can be studied synthetically as the computational effect embodied by a commutative monad. In the recently proposed Markov categories, one works with an abstraction of the Kleisli category and then defines deterministic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sean Moss , Paolo Perrone

We examine a constrained Markov decision process under uncertain transition probabilities, with the uncertainty modeled as deviations from observed transition probabilities. We construct the uncertainty set associated with the deviations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 V Varagapriya

Given a small category $I$ and a closed symmetric monoidal category $\mm$, we show that the diagram category $\mm^I$ with the objectwise product is a closed symmetric monoidal category. We then prove that if $I$ is a Reedy category and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Moncef Ghazel , Fethi Kadhi

In his book on model categories, Hovey asked whether the 2-category $\mathbf{Mod}$ of model categories admits a "model 2-category structure" whose weak equivalences are the Quillen equivalences. We show that $\mathbf{Mod}$ does not have…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Reid William Barton

Our aim is to introduce a category-theoretic framework sufficiently general to describe a wide variety of open kinematic systems in classical mechanics while uniquely characterizing systems with specified simplest components. The framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Andrea Abeje-Stine , David Weisbart

Kornel Szlach\'anyi recently used the term skew-monoidal category for a particular laxified version of monoidal category. He showed that bialgebroids $H$ with base ring $R$ could be characterized in terms of skew-monoidal structures on the…

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