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In this survey paper, we present \v{C}ech and sheaf cohomologies -- themes that were presented by Koszul in University of S\~ao Paulo during his visit in the late 1950s -- we present expansions for categories of generalized sheaves (i.e,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Ana Luiza Tenorio , Hugo Luiz Mariano

We show how probabilities can be treated as truth values in suitable sheaf topoi. The scheme developed in this paper is very general and applies to both classical and quantum physics. On the quantum side, the results are a natural extension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Andreas Doering , Chris J. Isham

We show that every sheaf on the site of smooth manifolds with values in a stable (infinity,1)-category (like spectra or chain complexes) gives rise to a differential cohomology diagram and a homotopy formula, which are common features of…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2013-11-15 Ulrich Bunke , Thomas Nikolaus , Michael Völkl

We extend the topos-theoretic treatment given in previous papers of assigning values to quantities in quantum theory, and of related issues such as the Kochen-Specker theorem. This extension has two main parts: the use of von Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Hamilton , C. J. Isham , J. Butterfield

The Kochen-Specker theorem asserts the impossibility of assigning values to quantum quantities in a way that preserves functional relations between them. We construct a new type of valuation which is defined on all operators, and which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Isham , J. Butterfield

In a recent paper Griffiths claims that the consistent histories interpretation of quantum mechanics gives rise to results that contradict those obtained from the Bohm interpretation. This is in spite of the fact that both claim to provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. Hiley , O. J. E. Maroney

We present an abstract unifying framework for interpreting Stone-type dualities; several known dualities are seen to be instances of just one topos-theoretic phenomenon, and new dualities are introduced. In fact, infinitely many new…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Olivia Caramello

What is a time-varying graph, a time-varying topological space, or, more generally, a mathematical structure that evolves over time? In this work, we lay the foundations for a general theory of temporal data by introducing categories of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , James Fairbanks , Martti Karvonen , Wilmer Leal , Frédéric Simard

We develop a general theory of extensions of flat functors along geometric morphisms of toposes, and apply it to the study of the class of theories whose classifying topos is equivalent to a presheaf topos. As a result, we obtain a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Olivia Caramello

This thesis develops the theory of sheaves and cosheaves with an eye towards applications in science and engineering. To provide a theory that is computable, we focus on a combinatorial version of sheaves and cosheaves called cellular…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Justin Curry

We review the consistent histories formulations of quantum mechanics developed by Griffiths, Omn\`es and Gell-Mann and Hartle, and describe the classification of consistent sets. We illustrate some general features of consistent sets by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Fay Dowker , Adrian Kent

There is an interplay between models, specified by variables and equations, and their connections to one another. This dichotomy should be reflected in the abstract as well. Without referring to the models directly -- only that a model…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Michael Robinson

In this paper, we identify some categorical structures in which one can model predicative formal systems: in other words, predicative analogues of the notion of a topos, with the aim of using sheaf models to interprete predicative formal…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benno van den Berg

From a logical point of view, Stone duality for Boolean algebras relates theories in classical propositional logic and their collections of models. The theories can be seen as presentations of Boolean algebras, and the collections of models…

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Current continuous generative models (e.g., Diffusion Models, Flow Matching) implicitly assume that locally consistent causal mechanisms naturally yield globally coherent counterfactuals. In this paper, we prove that this assumption fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Rui Wu , Hong Xie , Yongjun Li

Persistent homology has been recently studied with the tools of sheaf theory in the derived setting by Kashiwara and Schapira, after J. Curry has made the first link between persistent homology and sheaves. We prove the isometry theorem in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Nicolas Berkouk , Grégory Ginot

The initial motivation of this work was to give a topological interpretation of two-periodic twisted de-Rham cohomology which is generalizable to arbitrary coefficients. To this end we develop a sheaf theory in the context of locally…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-12 Ulrich Bunke , Markus Spitzweck , Thomas Schick

We interpret some results of persistent homology and barcodes (in any dimension) with the language of microlocal sheaf theory. For that purpose we study the derived category of sheaves on a real finite-dimensional vector space V. By using…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Masaki Kashiwara , Pierre Schapira

We construct Grothendieck topologies on the path category of a finite graph, examining both coarse and discrete cases that offer different perspectives on quiver representations. The coarse topology declares each vertex covered by all…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Eric M. Schmid , Fernando Tohmé , William Chin

In this paper we study a model of intuitionistic higher-order logic which we call \emph{the Muchnik topos}. The Muchnik topos may be defined briefly as the category of sheaves of sets over the topological space consisting of the Turing…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Sankha S. Basu , Stephen G. Simpson