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This paper proves three different coherence theorems for symmetric monoidal bicategories. First, we show that in a free symmetric monoidal bicategory every diagram of 2-cells commutes. Second, we show that this implies that the free…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Nick Gurski , Angélica M. Osorno

Conformal nets are a mathematical model for conformal field theory, and defects between conformal nets are a model for an interaction or phase transition between two conformal field theories. In the preceding paper of this series, we…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Arthur Bartels , Christopher L. Douglas , André Henriques

Given an algebraic theory which can be described by a (possibly symmetric) operad $P$, we propose a definition of the \emph{weakening} (or \emph{categorification}) of the theory, in which equations that hold strictly for $P$-algebras hold…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-02-05 M. R. Gould

We discuss what it means for a symmetric monoidal category to be a module over a commutative semiring category. Each of the categories of (1) cartesian monoidal categories, (2) semiadditive categories, and (3) connective spectra can be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-29 John D. Berman

We introduce the notion of coherent graphs, and show how those can be used to define dynamic semantics for Multiplicative Linear Logic (MLL) extended with non-determinism. Thanks to the use of a coherence relation rather than mere formal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Lê Thành Dũng Nguyen , Thomas Seiller

We present a process semantics for the purely additive fragment of linear logic in which formulas denote protocols and (equivalence classes of) proofs denote multi-channel concurrent processes. The polycategorical model induced by this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-03 C. A. Pastro

A coherence result for symmetric monoidal closed categories with biproducts is shown in this paper. It is explained how to prove, by using the same technique, coherence for compact closed categories with biproducts and for dagger compact…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Zoran Petric , Mladen Zekic

The term ``Boolean category'' should be used for describing an object that is to categories what a Boolean algebra is to posets. More specifically, a Boolean category should provide the abstract algebraic structure underlying the proofs in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Lutz Strassburger

BV-categories are a recent development that aims to give categorical semantics to proofs in the logic BV. However, due to the absence of a coherence theorem on one side and a well-defined notion of proof identity for BV on the other side,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Matteo Acclavio , Lutz Straßburger , Vladimir Zamdzhiev

In this thesis I lift the Curry--Howard--Lambek correspondence between the simply-typed lambda calculus and cartesian closed categories to the bicategorical setting, then use the resulting type theory to prove a coherence result for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Philip Saville

These notes were originally developed as lecture notes for a category theory course. They should be well-suited to anyone that wants to learn category theory from scratch and has a scientific mind. There is no need to know advanced…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Paolo Perrone

The Lefschetz fixed point theorem follows easily from the identification of the Lefschetz number with the fixed point index. This identification is a consequence of the functoriality of the trace in symmetric monoidal categories. There are…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Kate Ponto

Proof nets provide abstract counterparts to sequent proofs modulo rule permutations; the idea being that if two proofs have the same underlying proof-net, they are in essence the same proof. Providing a convincing proof-net counterpart to…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Richard McKinley

We describe a category of Feynman graphs and show how it relates to compact symmetric multicategories (coloured modular operads) just as linear orders relate to categories and rooted trees relate to multicategories. More specifically we…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-07-15 André Joyal , Joachim Kock

We prove Steinebrunner's conjecture on the biequivalence between (colored) properads and labelled cospan categories. The main part of the work is to establish a 1-categorical, strict version of the conjecture, showing that the category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Jonathan Beardsley , Philip Hackney

This is a report on aspects of the theory and use of monoidal categories. The first section introduces the main concepts through the example of the category of vector spaces. String notation is explained and shown to lead naturally to a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Ross Street

The goal of this paper is to prove coherence results with respect to relational graphs for monoidal monads and comonads, i.e. monads and comonads in a monoidal category such that the endofunctor of the monad or comonad is a monoidal functor…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-08 K. Dosen , Z. Petric

We provide a formulation of the univalence axiom in a universe category model of dependent type theory that is convenient to verify in homotopy-theoretic settings. We further develop a strengthening of the univalence axiom, called pointed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Chris Kapulkin , Yufeng Li

We universally characterize the produoidal category of monoidal lenses over a monoidal category. In the same way that each category induces a cofree promonoidal category of spliced arrows, each monoidal category induces a cofree produoidal…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Mario Román

The homotopy theory of representations of nets of algebras over a (small) category with values in a closed symmetric monoidal model category is developed. We illustrate how each morphism of nets of algebras determines a change-of-net…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Angelos Anastopoulos , Marco Benini