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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

We show that every involutive Hopf monoid in a complete and finitely cocomplete symmetric monoidal category gives rise to invariants of oriented surfaces defined in terms of ribbon graphs. For every ribbon graph this yields an object in the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Anna-Katharina Hirmer , Catherine Meusburger

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

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

Polynomials in a category have been studied as a generalization of the traditional notion in mathematics. Their construction has recently been extended to higher groupoids, as formalized in homotopy type theory, by Finster, Mimram, Lucas…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Elies Harington , Samuel Mimram

Berge's maximum theorem gives conditions ensuring the continuity of an optimised function as a parameter changes. In this paper we state and prove the maximum theorem in terms of the theory of monoidal topology and the theory of double…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Seerp Roald Koudenburg

We deal with the symmetries of a (2-term) graded vector space or bundle. Our first theorem shows that they define a (strict) Lie 2-groupoid in a natural way. Our second theorem explores the construction of nerves for Lie 2-categories,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Matias del Hoyo , Davide Stefani

We reconcile the two different category-theoretic semantics of regular theories in predicate logic. A 2-category of `regular fibrations' is constructed, as well as a 2-category of `regular proarrow equipments', and it is shown that the two…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Finn Lawler

We show that some recent constructions in the literature, named `weak' generalizations, can be systematically treated by passing from 2-categories to categories enriched in the Cartesian monoidal category of Cauchy complete categories.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Gabriella Böhm , Stephen Lack , Ross Street

In this paper, we formulate and prove a derived category version of Poitou-Tate duality on Galois cohomology of compact modules (with a continuous Galois action) over a pro-p ring, where p is a prime.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Meng Fai Lim

We define a class of sites such that the associated topos is equivalent to the category of smooth sets (representations) of some locally prodiscrete monoids (to be defined). Examples of locally prodiscrete monoids include profinite groups…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Satoshi Kondo , Seidai Yasuda

The aim of this paper is to study categorified algebraic structures and their pseudo- and lax homomorphisms using the framework of Lawvere $2$-theories, and more generally, (enhanced) $2$-dimensional sketches. The key notion we focus on is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Tomáš Perutka

We classify the module categories over the double (possibly twisted) of a finite group.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor Ostrik

We consider the categorical equivalence between crossed modules over groupoids and double groupoids with thin structures; and by this equivalence, we prove how normality and quotient concepts are related in these two categories and give…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Osman Mucuk , Serap Demir

We define 2-categories of microlocal perverse (resp. coherent) sheaves of categories on the skeleton of a hypertoric variety and show that the generators of these 2-categories lift the projectives (resp. simples) in hypertoric category…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Benjamin Gammage , Justin Hilburn

We study the monoidal structure of the standard strictification functor $\textrm{st}:\mathbf{Bicat} \rightarrow \mathbf{2Cat}$. In doing so, we construct monoidal structures on the 2-category whose objects are bicategories and on the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-28 Nick Gurski

We introduce a complete set of combinatorial data that encode the category $2\mathfrak{Cob}$ of all $2$-cobordisms. As an application, we show that the local monoids of $2\mathfrak{Cob}$ do not have finitely axiomatizable equational…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Karl Auinger , Mikhail Volkov

We introduce a theory for encoding and manipulating algebraic data on categories via $\textit{concentration structures}$, which are equivalence relations on morphisms that satisfy certain axioms. For any category with a concentration…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Yangxiao Luo , Shunyu Wan

The scientific and practical needs of the twenty-first century lead humankind to convergence of the specialized and diverse branches of science and technology. This convergence reveals the need for new mathematical theories capable of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Aydin Manzouri

We prove that there is an adjunction between what we call \'etale topological categories and restriction quantal frames that leads to an adjunction with a category of complete restriction monoids. This generalizes the adjunction between…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Mark V. Lawson