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In this paper we show that both the homotopy category of strict $n$-categories, $1\leqslant n \leqslant \infty$, and the homotopy category of Steiner's augmented directed complexes are equivalent to the category of homotopy types. In order…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Andrea Gagna

We show that discrete and classical homotopy theories are equivalent after localizing at n-equivalences for any non-negative integer n. By constructing an explicit homotopy inverse to the graph nerve functor associating an n-fibrant cubical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Daniel Carranza , Chris Kapulkin

We study four types of (co)cartesian fibrations of $\infty$-bicategories over a given base $\mathcal{B}$, and prove that they encode the four variance flavors of $\mathcal{B}$-indexed diagrams of $\infty$-categories. We then use this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Andrea Gagna , Yonatan Harpaz , Edoardo Lanari

Category theory in homotopy type theory is intricate as categorical laws can only be stated "up to homotopy", and thus require coherences. The established notion of a univalent category (Ahrens, Kapulkin, Shulman) solves this by considering…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Paolo Capriotti , Nicolai Kraus

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

We consider a category of all finite partial orderings with quotient maps as arrows and construct a Fra\"iss\'e sequence in this category. Then we use commonly known relations between partial orders and lattices to construct a sequence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Szymon Głcab , Michał Pawlikowski

In this paper we first give a simplicial approach to the definition of a non strict $n$-category that we call an $n$-nerve following the idea that a category could be interpreted as a simplicial set, and we prove that our construction…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Zouhair Tamsamani

We introduce a notion of $\Theta$-categories, which is a refinement of the notion of symmetric monoidal $\infty$-categories. We use this notion to prove a Tannakian duality statement, relating $\Theta$-categories with fpqc-stacks by means…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Joost Nuiten , Bertrand Toen

After explaining the importance of model categories in abstract homotopy theory, we provide concrete examples demonstrating that various categories of manifolds do not have all finite colimits, and hence cannot be model categories. We then…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-27 David White

This paper is the first in a series of two papers, $\mathbf{Z}$-Categories I and $\mathbf{Z}$-Categories II, which develop the notion of $\mathbf{Z}$-category, the natural bi-infinite analog to strict $\omega$-categories, and show that the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Paul Lessard

Abstract inner automorphisms can be used to promote any category into a 2-category, and we study two-dimensional limits and colimits in the resulting 2-categories. Existing connected colimits and limits in the starting category become…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Pieter Hofstra , Martti Karvonen

We prove that one can realize certain triangulated subcategories of the singularity category of a complete intersection as homotopy categories of matrix factorizations. Moreover, we prove that for any commutative ring and non-zerodivisor,…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Petter Andreas Bergh , David A. Jorgensen

Some aspects of basic category theory are developed in a finitely complete category $\C$, endowed with two factorization systems which determine the same discrete objects and are linked by a simple reciprocal stability law. Resting on this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-06 Claudio Pisani

We explore a hierarchy of notions in categorical algebra: Mal'tsev categories (where every reflexive relation is symmetric); naturally Mal'tsev categories (where every reflexive graph underlies a unique internal groupoid structure, also…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Nelson Martins-Ferreira

The paper is devoted to introduce some notions extending the unique path lifting property from a homotopy viewpoint and to study their roles in the category of fibrations. First, we define some homotopical kinds of the unique path lifting…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Mehdi Tajik , Behrooz Mashayekhy , Ali Pakdaman

We make strict $n$-categories even stricter by requiring they satisfy higher exchange laws governed by Hadzihasanovic's theory of regular directed complexes. We study the first properties of stricter $n$-categories, in particular, we define…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Clémence Chanavat

Invited contribution to the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics. We give an introduction to the homotopical theory of higher categories, focused on motivating the definitions of the basic objects, namely $\infty$-categories and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Rune Haugseng

We introduce $n$-abelian and $n$-exact categories, these are analogs of abelian and exact categories from the point of view of higher homological algebra. We show that $n$-cluster-tilting subcategories of abelian (resp. exact) categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Gustavo Jasso

This article introduces Hilbert $*$-categories: an abstraction of categories with similar algebraic and analytic properties to the categories of real, complex, and quaternionic Hilbert spaces and bounded linear maps. Other examples include…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Matthew Di Meglio , Chris Heunen