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We show that the equivalence between several possible characterizations of Frobenius algebras, and of symmetric Frobenius algebras, carries over from the category of vector spaces to more general monoidal categories. For Frobenius algebras,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-02-03 Jurgen Fuchs , Carl Stigner

The theory of monads on categories equipped with a dagger (a contravariant identity-on-objects involutive endofunctor) works best when everything respects the dagger: the monad and adjunctions should preserve the dagger, and the monad and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Chris Heunen , Martti Karvonen

Given an exact functor between triangulated categories which admits both adjoints and whose cotwist is either zero or an autoequivalence, we show how to associate a unique full triangulated subcategory of the codomain on which the functor…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Andreas Hochenegger , Ciaran Meachan

Monoidal functors U:C --> M with left adjoints determine, in a universal way, monoids T in the category of oplax monoidal endofunctors on M. Such monads will be called bimonads. Treating bimonads as abstract "quantum groupoids" we derive…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Szlachanyi

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

An affine monoid is an additive monoid which is cancellative, pointed and finitely generated. An affine monoid $\Lambda$ has the partial order defined by $\lambda \le \lambda + \mu$. The Frobenius complex is the order complex of an open…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Shouta Tounai

This paper provides geometrical descriptions of the Frobenius monad freely generated by a single object. These descriptions are related to results connecting Frobenius algebras and topological quantum field theories. In these descriptions,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-14 K. Dosen , Z. Petric

We identify general conditions, formulated using the projection formula morphisms, for a functor that is simultaneously left and right adjoint to a strong monoidal functor to be a Frobenius monoidal functor. Moreover, we identify stronger…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Johannes Flake , Robert Laugwitz , Sebastian Posur

We develop the theory of relative monads and relative adjunctions in a virtual equipment, extending the theory of monads and adjunctions in a 2-category. The theory of relative comonads and relative coadjunctions follows by duality. While…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Nathanael Arkor , Dylan McDermott

Certain aspects of Street's formal theory of monads in 2-categories are extended to multimonoidal monads in symmetric strict monoidal 2-categories. Namely, any symmetric strict monoidal 2-category $\mathcal M$ admits a symmetric strict…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Gabriella Böhm

We introduce a class of potential submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean spaces (each N-dimensional potential submanifold is a special flat torsionless submanifold in a 2N-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space) and prove that each N-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-04 O. I. Mokhov

We characterize double adjunctions in terms of presheaves and universal squares, and then apply these characterizations to free monads and Eilenberg--Moore objects in double categories. We improve upon our earlier result in "Monads in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Thomas M. Fiore , Nicola Gambino , Joachim Kock

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

Firm Frobenius algebras are firm algebras and counital coalgebras such that the comultiplication is a bimodule map. They are investigated by categorical methods based on a study of adjunctions and lifted functors. Their categories of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Gabriella Böhm , José Gómez-Torrecillas

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

We study rewriting for equational theories in the context of symmetric monoidal categories where there is a separable Frobenius monoid on each object. These categories, also called hypergraph categories, are increasingly relevant: Frobenius…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Fabio Zanasi

This lecture series is based on joint work in progress with Shaul Barkan, as well as work in progress of the author. The five sections of these notes correspond to the five lectures, but more details have been added. $2$-dimensional…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Jan Steinebrunner

Given a monoidal category $\mathscr{C}$ with an object $J$, we construct a monoidal category $\mathscr{C}[J^{\vee}]$ by freely adjoining a right dual $J^{\vee}$ to $J$. We show that the canonical strong monoidal functor $\Omega :…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Kevin Coulembier , Ross Street , Michel van den Bergh

We extend the basic concepts of Street's formal theory of monads from the setting of 2-categories to that of double categories. In particular, we introduce the double category Mnd(C) of monads in a double category C and define what it means…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Thomas M. Fiore , Nicola Gambino , Joachim Kock

Let $G$ be a group. We give a categorical definition of the $G$-equivariant $\alpha$-induction associated with a given $G$-equivariant Frobenius algebra in a $G$-braided multitensor category, which generalizes the $\alpha$-induction for…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Mizuki Oikawa