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Rigorous modelling of natural and industrial systems still conveys various challenges related to abstractions, methods to proceed with and easy-to-use tools to build, compose and reason on models. Operads are mathematical structures that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Christian Attiogbé

The purpose of this foundational paper is to introduce various notions and constructions in order to develop the homotopy theory for differential graded operads over any ring. The main new idea is to consider the action of the symmetric…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Malte Dehling , Bruno Vallette

We introduce the notion of a dioperad to describe certain operations with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. The framework of Koszul duality for operads is generalized to dioperads. We show that the Lie bialgebra dioperad is Koszul.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wee Liang Gan

This is a list of some problems and conjectures related to various types of algebras, that is to algebraic operads. Some comments and hints are included.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Jean-Louis Loday

We define a monad $T_n^{\operatorname{D^s}}$ whose operations are encoded by simple string diagrams and we define $n$-sesquicategories as algebras over this monad. This monad encodes the compositional structure of $n$-dimensional string…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Manuel Araújo

We propose a new unifying framework for Thompson-like groups using a well-known device called operads and category theory as language. We discuss examples of operad groups which have appeared in the literature before. As a first…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Werner Thumann

In a bicategory of spans (an example of a 'generic bicategory') the factorization of a span (s,t) as the span (s,1) followed by (1,t) satisfies a simple universal property with respect to all factorizations in terms of the generic…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Charles Walker

It is well known that to give an oplax functor of bicategories $\mathbf{1}\to\mathscr{C}$ is to give a comonad in $\mathscr{C}$. Here we generalize this fact, replacing the terminal bicategory by any bicategory $\mathscr{A}$ for which the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Charles Walker

In this paper we introduce novel views of monoids and groups. More specifically, for a given set $S$, let $S^{S\times S}$ be the set of binary operations on $S$. We equip $S^{S\times S}$ with canonical binary operations induced by the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Masayoshi Kaneda

We show that braided, sylleptic and symmetric monoidal bicategories are precisely the $\mathsf{E}_k$-monoids in the cartesian monoidal $(\infty,1)$-category of bicategories for respective integers $k$. To manage the underlying computations,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Raffael Stenzel

We define a notion of grading of a monoid T in a monoidal category C, relative to a class of morphisms M (which provide a notion of M-subobject). We show that, under reasonable conditions (including that M forms a factorization system),…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Flavien Breuvart , Dylan McDermott , Tarmo Uustalu

We extend Barwick's and Haugseng's construction of the double $\infty$-category of spans in a pullback-complete $\infty$-category $\mathfrak{C}$ to more general shapes: for a large class of algebraic patterns $\mathfrak{P}$, we define a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-01 David Kern

In [KW14], the new concept of Feynman categories was introduced to simplify the discussion of operad--like objects. In this present paper, we demonstrate the usefulness of this approach, by introducing the concept of decorated Feynman…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Ralph M. Kaufmann , Jason Lucas

Operads are algebraic devices offering a formalization of the concept of operations with several inputs and one output. Such operations can be naturally composed to form bigger and more complex ones. Coming historically from algebraic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Samuele Giraudo

Bicategories of spans are characterized as cartesian bicategories in which every comonad has an Eilenberg-Moore ob ject and every left adjoint arrow is comonadic.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Stephen Lack , R. F. C. Walters , R. J. Wood

We present an unbiased theory of symmetric multicategories, where sequences are replaced by families. To be effective, this approach requires an explicit consideration of indexing and reindexing of objects and arrows, handled by the double…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Claudio Pisani

We introduce unary operadic 2-categories as a framework for operadic Grothendieck construction for categorical $\mathbb{O}$-operads, $\mathbb{O}$ being a unary operadic category. The construction is a fully faithful functor…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Dominik Trnka

In earlier work, Batanin has shown that an important class of definitions of higher categories could be apprehended together simply as monads over globular sets. This allowed him to generalize the notion of polygraph, initially introduced…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Simon Forest

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we review applications of the bar duality of operads to the construction of explicit cofibrant replacements in categories of algebras over an operad. In view toward applications, we check that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-06-17 Benoit Fresse

Generalizing the approach to pseudo monoidal DG-categories as certain colored non-symmetric DG-operads, we introduce a certain relaxed notion of a category enriched in DG-categories. We construct model structures on the category of colored…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Sergey Arkhipov , Tina Kanstrup