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The motivation of this work is to define cohomology classes in the space of knots that are both easy to find and to evaluate, by reducing the problem to simple linear algebra. We achieve this goal by defining a combinatorial graded cochain…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Arnaud Mortier

Categories, n-categories, double categories, and multicategories (among others) all have similar definitions as collections of cells with composition operations. We give an explicit description of the information required to define any…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Brandon Shapiro

In this paper we explain certain systematic differences between algebraic and topological triangulated categories. A triangulated category is algebraic if it admits a differential graded model, and topological if it admits a model in the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Stefan Schwede

For a topological space, we investigate its cohomology support loci, sitting inside varieties of (nonabelian) representations of the fundamental group. To do this, for a CDG (commutative differential graded) algebra, we define its…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Alexandru Dimca , Stefan Papadima

These lecture notes are a systematic and self-contained exposition of the cohomological theories naturally related to partial differential equations: the Vinogradov C-spectral sequence and the C-cohomology, including the formulation in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joseph Krasil'shchik , Alexander Verbovetsky

Recently, we have endowed various categories of groups with topologies. The purpose of this paper is to introduce on these categories others topologies which are statistically more suitable to study well-known problems in groups theory. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Tsemo Aristide

In the present paper, we define the new class of representation on $n$-Lie algebra that is called as generalized representation. We study the cohomology theory corresponding to generalized representations of $n$-Lie algebras and show its…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Afi Maha , Sania Asif , Chouaibi Sami , Basdouri Imed

These are expository lecture notes from a graduate topics course taught by the author on Khovanov homology and related invariants. Major topics include the Jones polynomial, Khovanov homology, Bar-Natan's cobordism category, applications of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Melissa Zhang

We give a self-contained introduction to accessible categories and how they shed light on both model- and set-theoretic questions. We survey for example recent developments on the study of presentability ranks, a notion of cardinality…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Sebastien Vasey

The topic of this thesis is the application of distributive laws between comonads to the theory of cyclic homology. Explicitly, our main aims are: 1) To study how the cyclic homology of associative algebras and of Hopf algebras in the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Paul Slevin

For a class of pointed Hopf algebras including the quantized enveloping algebras, we discuss cleft extensions, cocycle deformations and the second cohomology. We present such a non-standard method of computing the abelian second cohomology…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-04-21 Akira Masuoka

We fill a gap in the literature regarding `transport of structure' for (n+2)-angulated, n-exact, n-abelian and n-exangulated categories appearing in (classical and higher) homological algebra. As an application of our main results, we show…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Raphael Bennett-Tennenhaus , Amit Shah

Covering spaces are a fundamental tool in algebraic topology because of the close relationship they bear with the fundamental groups of spaces. Indeed, they are in correspondence with the subgroups of the fundamental group: this is known as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Samuel Mimram , Émile Oleon

This paper studies averaging algebras, say, associative algebras endowed with averaging operators. We develop a cohomology theory for averaging algebras and justify it by interpreting lower degree cohomology groups as formal deformations…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Kai Wang , Guodong Zhou

These expository notes are dedicated to the study of the topology of configuration spaces of manifolds. We give detailed computations of many invariants, including the fundamental group of the configuration spaces of $\mathbb{R}^2$, the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Ben Knudsen

This paper develops a cohomology theory for Hom-Jacobi-Jordan algebras using and applies it to classify non-abelian extensions. The main result establishes that equivalence classes of split extensions of a Hom-Jacobi-Jordan algebra $J$ by…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Nejib Saadaoui

The aim of this article is to study certain categorical-algebraic frameworks for basic homological algebra, introduced in arXiv:2404.15896, with the aim of better understanding the differences between them. We focus on homological…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Florent Afsa

The paper is devoted to an approach to the bounded cohomology theory based on the theories of simplicial sets and Postnikov systems. In particular, the main results of the bounded cohomology theory of topological spaces are extended to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Nikolai V. Ivanov

This paper, written in 1998, aims to clarify various higher categorical structures, mostly through the theory of generalized operads and multicategories. Chapters I and II, which cover this theory and its application to give a definition of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Leinster

The aim of this article is to explain a philosophy for applying higher dimensional Seifert-van Kampen Theorems, and how the use of groupoids and strict higher groupoids resolves some foundational anomalies in algebraic topology at the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Ronald Brown