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We introduce pseudoalgebras for relative pseudomonads and develop their theory. For each relative pseudomonad $T$, we construct a free--forgetful relative pseudoadjunction that exhibits the bicategory of $T$-pseudoalgebras as terminal among…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Nathanael Arkor , Philip Saville , Andrew Slattery

The work is devoted to the variety of $2$-dimensional algebras over an algebraically closed field. Firstly, we classify such algebras modulo isomorphism. Then we describe the degenerations and the closures of principal algebra series in the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Ivan Kaygorodov , Yury Volkov

We introduce the category of singular 2-dimensional cobordisms and show that it admits a completely algebraic description as the free symmetric monoidal category on a twin Frobenius algebra, by providing a description of this category in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Carmen Caprau

Let $A$ be a commutative algebra in a braided monoidal category $\mathcal{C}$; e.g., $A$ could be an extension of a vertex operator algebra (VOA) $V$ in a category $\mathcal{C}$ of $V$-modules. We study when the category $\mathcal{C}_A$ of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Thomas Creutzig , Robert McRae , Kenichi Shimizu , Harshit Yadav

We construct a compact closed category out of any symmetric monoidal category by freely adding adjoints to its objects. The morphisms of the completion are defined as string diagrams annotated by objects and morphisms from the original…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Antonin Delpeuch

Just as knots and links can be algebraically described as certain morphisms in the category of tangles in 3 dimensions, compact surfaces smoothly embedded in R^4 can be described as certain 2-morphisms in the 2-category of `2-tangles in 4…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John C. Baez , Laurel Langford

We define locally wide finitary 2-categories by relaxing the definition of finitary 2-categories to allow infinitely many objects and isomorphism classes of 1-morphisms and infinite dimensional hom-spaces of 2-morphisms. After defining…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-24 James Macpherson

A 2-Hilbert space is a category with structures and properties analogous to those of a Hilbert space. More precisely, we define a 2-Hilbert space to be an abelian category enriched over Hilb with a *-structure, conjugate-linear on the…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 John C. Baez

In the first part of this paper we study fibrations of $(\infty,2)$-categories. We give a simple characterization of such fibrations in terms of a certain square being a pullback, and apply this to show that in some cases…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Fernando Abellán , Rune Haugseng , Louis Martini

We introduce simple models for associative algebras and bimodules in the context of non-symmetric $\infty$-operads, and use these to construct an $(\infty,2)$-category of associative algebras, bimodules, and bimodule homomorphisms in a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Rune Haugseng

A fundamental result in the theory of monads is the characterisation of the category of algebras for a monad in terms of a pullback of the category of presheaves on the category of free algebras: intuitively, this expresses that every…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Nathanael Arkor , Dylan McDermott

We develop a rigidity criterion to show that in simplicial model categories with a compatible symmetric monoidal structure, operad structures can be automatically lifted along certain maps. This is applied to obtain an unpublished result of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Daniel G. Davis , Tyler Lawson

We relate commutative algebras in braided tensor categories to braid-reversed tensor equivalences, motivated by vertex algebra representation theory. First, for $\mathcal{C}$ a braided tensor category, we give a detailed construction of the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Thomas Creutzig , Shashank Kanade , Robert McRae

In the paper "Triangulations, orientals, and skew monoidal categories", the free monoidal category Fsk on a single generating object was described. We sharpen this by giving a completely explicit description of Fsk, and so of the free skew…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-17 John Bourke , Stephen Lack

We show that a compact rigid balanced braided monoidal category with enough compact projective objects gives rise to a system of mapping class group representations compatible with the gluing along marked intervals. A motivation to consider…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Deniz Yeral

We study discrete opfibration classifiers in enhanced 2-categories and show how, under suitable hypotheses, such classifiers can be endowed with the structure of a (lax or pseudo-)T-algebra and classify strict discrete opfibrations in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Matteo Capucci , David Jaz Myers

We prove that the free algebra functor associated to a symmetric, pseudo commutative 2-monad, from the underlying symmetric monoidal 2-category to the 2-category of algebras and pseudo maps over the 2-monad can be enhanced to a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Diego Manco

In this paper we investigate important categories lying strictly between the Kleisli category and the Eilenberg-Moore category, for a Kock-Z\"oberlein monad on an order-enriched category. Firstly, we give a characterisation of free algebras…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Dirk Hofmann , Lurdes Sousa

Liftable pairs of adjoint functors between braided monoidal categories in the sense of \cite{GV-OnTheDuality} provide auto-adjunctions between the associated categories of bialgebras. Motivated by finding interesting examples of such pairs,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Alessandro Ardizzoni , Isar Goyvaerts , Claudia Menini

We describe (braided-)commutative algebras with non-degenerate multiplicative form in certain braided monoidal categories, corresponding to abelian metric Lie algebras (so-called Drinfeld categories). We also describe local modules over…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-26 Alexei Davydov , Vyacheslav Futorny