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We develop a general theory of (extended) inner autoequivalences of objects of any 2-category, generalizing the theory of isotropy groups to the 2-categorical setting. We show how dense subcategories let one compute isotropy in the presence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Pieter Hofstra , Martti Karvonen

In this survey, we provide an overview of category theory-derived machine learning from four mainstream perspectives: gradient-based learning, probability-based learning, invariance and equivalence-based learning, and topos-based learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yiyang Jia , Guohong Peng , Zheng Yang , Tianhao Chen

Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a finitely bicomplete category and $\mathcal{W}$ a subcategory. We prove that the existence of a model structure on $\mathcal{C}$ with $\mathcal{W}$ as subcategory of weak equivalence is not first order expressible.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Jean-Marie Droz , Inna Zakharevich

We develop a categorical framework for reasoning about abstract properties of differentiation, based on the theory of fibrations. Our work encompasses the first-order fragments of several existing categorical structures for differentiation,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Matteo Capucci , Geoffrey S. H. Cruttwell , Neil Ghani , Fabio Zanasi

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 show that the category of N-complexes has a Str\om model structure, meaning the weak equivalences are the chain homotopy equivalences. This generalizes the analogous result for the category of chain complexes (N = 2). The trivial objects…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2012-07-31 James Gillespie

In my Montreal lecture notes of 1988, it was suggested that the theory of linear quantum groups can be presented in the framework of the category of {\it quadratic algebras} (imagined as algebras of functions on "quantum linear spaces"),…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Yuri Manin

The geometric and algebraic properties of Gray categories with duals are investigated by means of a diagrammatic calculus. The diagrams are three-dimensional stratifications of a cube, with regions, surfaces, lines and vertices labelled by…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-09-24 John W. Barrett , Catherine Meusburger , Gregor Schaumann

This paper studies abelian categories that can be decomposed into smaller abelian categories via iterated recollements - such a decomposition we call a stratification. Examples include the categories of (equivariant) perverse sheaves and…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Giulian Wiggins

We introduce a dependent type theory whose models are weak {\omega}-categories, generalizing Brunerie's definition of {\omega}-groupoids. Our type theory is based on the definition of {\omega}-categories given by Maltsiniotis, himself…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Eric Finster , Samuel Mimram

We provide the expected constructions of weakly $\omega$-categorified models (in the sense of Bressie) of the theory of groups and quandles which arise by replacing the homotopies used to give equivalence relations in the theory of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Phillip M Bressie , David N Yetter

Trees are partial orders in which every element has a linearly ordered set of predecessors. Here we initiate the exploration of the structural theory of trees with the study of different notions of \emph{branching in trees} and of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Valentin Goranko , Ruaan Kellerman , Alberto Zanardo

Categorical orthodoxy has it that collections of ordinary mathematical structures such as groups, rings, or spaces, form categories (such as the category of groups); collections of 1-dimensional categorical structures, such as categories,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Stephen Lack

Structures in low-dimensional topology and low-dimensional geometry -- often combined with ideas from (quantum) field theory -- can explain and inspire concepts in algebra and in representation theory and their categorified versions. We…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-09 Jürgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert

In this paper we present $2$-category theory from the perspective of Gray-categories using the graphical calculus of separated surface diagrams. As an extended example we consider cones and limits of $2$-functors. Then we use the canonical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Edward Morehouse

We present the first definition of strictly associative and unital $\infty$-category. Our proposal takes the form of a type theory whose terms describe the operations of such structures, and whose definitional equality relation enforces…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Eric Finster , Alex Rice , Jamie Vicary

We construct in a unifying way skew-multicategories and multicategories of double and Gray-categories that we call Gray (skew) multicategories. We study their different versions depending on the types of functors and higher transforms. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Bojana Femić

We introduce some classes of genuine higher categories in homotopy type theory, defined as well-behaved subcategories of the category of types. We give several examples, and some techniques for showing other things are not examples. While…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-11 James Cranch

This paper contains a classification of countable lower 1-transitive linear orders. The notion of lower 1-transitivity generalises that of 1-transitivity for linear orders, and is essential for the structure theory of 1-transitive trees.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Silvia Barbina , Katie Chicot

Non-well-founded trees are used in mathematics and computer science, for modelling non-well-founded sets, as well as non-terminating processes or infinite data-structures. Categorically, they arise as final coalgebras for polynomial…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benno van den Berg , Federico de Marchi