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Motivated by its links to $\tau$-tilting theory, we introduce a generalization of cotorsion pairs in module categories. Such pairs are also linked to co-t-structures in corresponding triangulated categories, and to cotorsion pairs in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Aslak Bakke Buan , Yu Zhou

We generalize the notion of an anomaly for a symmetry to a noninvertible symmetry enacted by surface operators using the framework of condensation in 2-categories. Given a multifusion 2-category, potentially with some additional levels of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Thibault D. Décoppet , Matthew Yu

We describe an interesting relation between Lie 2-algebras, the Kac-Moody central extensions of loop groups, and the group $\mathrm{String}(n)$. A Lie 2-algebra is a categorified version of a Lie algebra where the Jacobi identity holds up…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-05-16 John C. Baez , Alissa S. Crans , Danny Stevenson , Urs Schreiber

Optics and lenses are abstract categorical gadgets that model systems with bidirectional data flow. In this paper we observe that the denotational definition of optics - identifying two optics as equivalent by observing their behaviour from…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Bruno Gavranović

A Q-system is a unitary version of a separable Frobenius algebra object in a C*-tensor category or a C*-2-category. We prove that, for C*-2-categories $\mcal C$ and $\mcal D$, the C*-2-category $\textbf{Fun}(\mcal C, \mcal D)$ of $ * $-$ 2…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Mainak Ghosh

A group in which all cyclic subgroups are 2-subnormal is called a 2-Baer group. The topic of this paper are generalized 2-Baer groups, i.e. groups in which the non-2-subnormal cyclic subgroups generate a proper subgroup of the group. If…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-04 L. -C. Kappe , A. Tortora

A simpler definition for a class of two-parameter quantum groups associated to semisimple Lie algebras is given in terms of Euler form. Their positive parts turn out to be 2-cocycle deformations of each other under some conditions. An…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-10-06 Naihong Hu , Yufeng Pei

For any block of a finite group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $2$ which has dihedral, semidihedral, or generalized quaternion defect groups, we determine explicitly the decomposition of the associated diagonal…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Robert Boltje , Serge Bouc , Deniz Yılmaz

Categorifying the concept of topological group, one obtains the notion of a 'topological 2-group'. This in turn allows a theory of 'principal 2-bundles' generalizing the usual theory of principal bundles. It is well-known that under mild…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-07-27 John C. Baez , Danny Stevenson

Let G be a connected reductive group. We define a map from the set of unipotent classes in G to the set of conjugacy classes in the Weyl group (assuming that the characteristic is not bad). This map is a one sided inverse of a map in the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-17 G. Lusztig

It is well-known that the "pre-2-category" $\mathscr{C}at_\mathrm{dg}^\mathrm{coh}(k)$ of small dg categories over a field $k$, with 1-morphisms defined as dg functors, and with 2-morphisms defined as the complexes of coherent natural…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Boris Shoikhet

The purpose of this paper is to explore more properties and representations of the W-weighted m-weak group (in short, W-m-WG) inverse. We first explore an interesting relation between two projectors with respect to the W-m-WG inverse. Then,…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Jiale Gao , Qing-Wen Wang , Kezheng Zuo

Poly-bicategories generalise planar polycategories in the same way as bicategories generalise monoidal categories. In a poly-bicategory, the existence of enough 2-cells satisfying certain universal properties (representability) induces…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Amar Hadzihasanovic

A (closed) dynamical system is a notion of how things can be, together with a notion of how they may change given how they are. The idea and mathematics of closed dynamical systems has proven incredibly useful in those sciences that can…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-05 David Jaz Myers

Complex reflection groups of rank two are precisely the finite groups in the family of groups that we call J-reflection groups. These groups are particular cases of J-groups as defined by Achar & Aubert in 2008. The family of J-reflection…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Igor Haladjian

We generalize the construction of tensor categories of endomorphisms of a type III factor $M$ associated with a $G$-kernel, from the case of a discrete group $G$ to that of a compact second countable group. Our approach is based on the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Marcel Bischoff , Pradyut Karmakar

Consider any sequence of finite groups $A^t$, where $t$ takes values in an integer index set $\mathbf{Z}$. A group system $A$ is a set of sequences with components in $A^t$ that forms a group under componentwise addition in $A^t$, for each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Kenneth M. Mackenthun

An involution on a semigroup S (or any algebra with an underlying associative binary operation) is a function f:S->S that satisfies f(xy)=f(y)f(x) and f(f(x))=x for all x,y in S. The set I(S) of all such involutions on S generates a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-16 James East , Thomas E. Nordahl

In this paper we introduce a description of ordered groupoids as a particular type of double categories. This enables us to turn Lawson's correspondence between ordered groupoids and left-cancellative categories into a biequivalence. We use…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Darien DeWolf , Dorette Pronk

We want to replace categories, functors and natural transformations by categories, open functors and open natural transformations. In analogy with open dynamical systems, the adjective open is added here to mean that some external…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Alexandre Fernandez , Luidnel Maignan , Antoine Spicher