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We prove a single category-theoretic result encapsulating the notions of ultrafilters, ultrapower, ultraproduct, tensor product of ultrafilters, the Rudin--Kiesler partial ordering on ultrafilters, and Blass's category of ultrafilters UF.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Richard Garner

A simple criterion for a functor to be finitary is presented: we call $F$ finitely bounded if for all objects $X$ every finitely generated subobject of $FX$ factorizes through the $F$-image of a finitely generated subobject of $X$. This is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Jiří Adámek , Stefan Milius , Lurdes Sousa , Thorsten Wißmann

For a triangulated category with products we develop a method for constructing a nice set of cogenerators, allowing us to prove a formal criterion in order to satisfy Brown representability for covariant functors. We apply this criterion…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-21 George Ciprian Modoi

Coherence in a monoidal category asserts that all morphisms built from structural isomorphisms with a fixed source and target coincide. These structural isomorphisms include, in particular, the associators. Linearly distributive categories…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Max Demirdilek , Christian Reiher , Christoph Schweigert

We introduce a category of cluster algebras with fixed initial seeds. This category has countable coproducts, which can be constructed combinatorially, but no products. We characterise isomorphisms and monomorphisms in this category and…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Ibrahim Assem , Grégoire Dupont , Ralf Schiffler

A compact closed bicategory is a symmetric monoidal bicategory where every object is equipped with a weak dual. The unit and counit satisfy the usual "zig-zag" identities of a compact closed category only up to natural isomorphism, and the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Michael Stay

In an abelian category, the (bi)fibration of subobjects is isomorphic to the (bi)fibration of quotients. This property captures substantial information about the exactness structure of a category. Indeed, as it was shown by the second…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Elena Caviglia , Zurab Janelidze , Luca Mesiti

Frobenius monoidal functors preserve duals. We show that conversely, (co)monoidal functors between autonomous categories which preserve duals are Frobenius monoidal. We apply this result to linearly distributive functors between autonomous…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Adriana Balan

We review the notions of a multiplier category and the $W^{*}$-envelope of a $C^{*}$-category. We then consider the notion of an orthogonal sum of a (possibly infinite) family of objects in a $C^{*}$-category. Furthermore, we construct…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Ulrich Bunke , Alexander Engel

A C*-tensor category with simple unit object is realized by von Neumann algebra bimodules of finite Jones index if and only if it is rigid.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shigeru Yamagami

We discuss the question when a finite-dimensional diffeological vector space is, or turns out not to be, the coproduct of its subspaces in the category of diffeological vector spaces, after reviewing the same question in some other…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Ekaterina Pervova

We fix any pair $(\mathbf{\mathscr{C}},\mathbf{W})$ consisting of a bicategory and a class of morphisms in it, admitting a bicalculus of fractions, i.e. a "localization" of $\mathbf{\mathscr{C}}$ with respect to the class $\mathbf{W}$. In…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Matteo Tommasini

The balanced tensor product M (x)_A N of two modules over an algebra A is the vector space corepresenting A-balanced bilinear maps out of the product M x N. The balanced tensor product M [x]_C N of two module categories over a monoidal…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Christopher L. Douglas , Christopher Schommer-Pries , Noah Snyder

For coalgebras $C$ over a field, we study when the categories ${}^C\Mm$ of left $C$-comodules and $\Mm^C$ of right $C$-comodules are symmetric categories, in the sense that there is a duality between the categories of finitely presented…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-05 S. Crivei , M. C. Iovanov

Let M be a smooth manifold, and let O(M) be the poset of open subsets of M. Manifold calculus, due to Goodwillie and Weiss, is a calculus of functors suitable for studying contravariant functors (cofunctors) F: O(M)--> Top from O(M) to the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-30 Paul Arnaud Songhafouo Tsopmene , Donald Stanley

We prove that the 2-category of skeletally small abelian categories with exact monoidal structures is anti-equivalent to the 2-category of fp-hom-closed definable additive categories satisfying an exactness criterion. For a fixed finitely…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Rose Wagstaffe

In previous work by the first two authors, Frobenius and commutative algebra objects in the category of spans of sets were characterized in terms of simplicial sets satisfying certain properties. In this paper, we find a similar…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Ivan Contreras , Rajan Amit Mehta , Walker H. Stern

Given a symmetrizable generalized Cartan matrix $A$, for any index $k$, one can define an automorphism associated with $A,$ of the field $\mathbf{Q}(u_1, >..., u_n)$ of rational functions of $n$ independent indeterminates $u_1,..., u_n.$ It…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Bin Zhu

The "linear dual" of a cocomplete linear category $\mathcal C$ is the category of all cocontinuous linear functors $\mathcal C \to \mathrm{Vect}$. We study the questions of when a cocomplete linear category is reflexive (equivalent to its…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Martin Brandenburg , Alexandru Chirvasitu , Theo Johnson-Freyd

In this expository article, we will give an efficient functorial proof of the equivalence of various characterisations of purity in a finitely accessible additive category $\mathcal C$. The complications of the proofs for specific choices…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Samuel Dean