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Let $A$ be a unital separable amenable \CA and $C$ be a unital \CA with certain infinite property. We show that two full monomorphisms $h_1, h_2: A\to C$ are approximately unitarily equivalent if and only if $[h_1]=[h_2]$ in $KL(A,C).$ Let…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huaxin Lin

Adhesive categories are categories which have pushouts with one leg a monomorphism, all pullbacks, and certain exactness conditions relating these pushouts and pullbacks. We give a new proof of the fact that every topos is adhesive. We also…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-14 Stephen Lack

In this paper we develop an ideal structure theory for the class of left reductive regular semigroups and apply it to several subclasses of popular interest. In these classes we observe that the right ideal structure of the semigroup is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 P. A. Azeef Muhammed , Gracinda M. S. Gomes

The classical Eckmann-Hilton argument shows that two monoid structures on a set, such that one is a homomorphism for the other, coincide and, moreover, the resulting monoid is commutative. This argument immediately gives a proof of the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-07-03 M. A. Batanin

We prove that a monoid is sofic, in the sense recently introduced by Ceccherini-Silberstein and Coornaert, whenever the J-class of the identity is a sofic group, and the quotients of this group by orbit stabilisers in the rest of the monoid…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Mark Kambites

We introduce and study a general notion of polynomial functor from a small monoidal symmetric category whose unit is an initial object and give a classification result of polynomial functors of degree smaller of equal to n modulo those of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Aurélien Djament , Christine Vespa

In this paper we investigate the categories of braided objects, algebras and bialgebras in a given monoidal category, some pairs of adjoint functors between them and their relations. In particular we construct a braided primitive functor…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Alessandro Ardizzoni , Claudia Menini

We develop further the theory of monoidal bicategories by introducing and studying bicategorical counterparts of the notions of a linear exponential comonad, as considered in the study of linear logic, and of a codereliction transformation,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 M. Fiore , N. Gambino , M. Hyland

We produce a highly structured way of associating a simplicial category to a model category which improves on work of Dwyer and Kan and answers a question of Hovey. We show that model categories satisfying a certain axiom are Quillen…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Charles Rezk , Stefan Schwede , Brooke Shipley

Pursuing the notions of ambidexterity and higher semiadditivity as developed by Hopkins and Lurie, we prove that the span $\infty$-category of $m$-finite spaces is the free $m$-semiadditive $\infty$-category generated by a single object.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Yonatan Harpaz

We develop a notion of iterated monoidal category and show that this notion corresponds in a precise way to the notion of iterated loop space. Specifically the group completion of the nerve of such a category is an iterated loop space and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Balteanu , Z. Fiedorowicz , R. Schwaenzl , R. Vogt

Constructor theory is a meta-theoretic approach that seeks to characterise concrete theories of physics in terms of the (im)possibility to implement certain abstract "tasks" by means of physical processes. Process theory, on the other hand,…

We give an alternative presentation of braided monoidal categories. Instead of the usual associativity and braiding we have just one constraint (the b-structure). In the unital case, the coherence conditions for a b-structure are shown to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Alexei Davydov , Ingo Runkel

In previous work we proved that, for categories of free finite-dimensional modules over a commutative semiring, linear compact-closed symmetric monoidal structure is a property, rather than a structure. That is, if there is such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Stefano Gogioso , Dan Marsden , Bob Coecke

In this note, I define a notion of a compactly supported object in a triangulated category. I prove a number of propositions relating this to traditional notions of support and give an application to the theory of derived Morita…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-25 Aaron Bergman

A bivariant functor is defined on a category of *-algebras and a category of operator ideals, both with actions of a second countable group $G$, into the category of abelian monoids. The element of the bivariant functor will be…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Magnus Goffeng

We give a description of unital operads in a symmetric monoidal category as monoids in a monoidal category of unital $\Lambda$-sequences. This is a new variant of Kelly's old description of operads as monoids in the monoidal category of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-26 J. P. May , Ruoqi Zhang , Foling Zou

Categories can be identified -- up to isomorphism -- with polynomial comonads on Set. The left Kan extension of a functor along itself is always a comonad -- called the density comonad -- so it defines a category when its carrier is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-28 David I. Spivak

Idempotent analogues of convexity are introduced. It is proved that the category of algebras for the capacity monad in the category of compacta is isomorphic to the category of $(\max,\min)$-idempotent biconvex compacta and their biaffine…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-08 Oleh Nykyforchyn , Dušan Repovš

An equivalent description of a symmetric monoidal category is introduced in which, instead of separate associator and commutator isomorphisms satisfying the usual coherence axioms, we simply have associo-commutator isomorphisms satisfying…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Josep Elgueta