Questions tagged [coherence]
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Examples and counterexamples to Lack's coherence observation
In Lack's A 2-categories companion, he states
There are general results asserting that any bicategory is biequivalent to
a 2-category, but in fact naturally occurring bicategories tend to be ...
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Does this matrix norm inequality have interesting application in other areas of mathematics?
In my new paper, one of the main theorems gives an upper bound for the spectral distance of a general real symmetric matrix to diagonal matrices:
Theorem 3. Let $A=[a_{ij}]$ be a real symmetric ...
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Why are the source-target rules of composition always strictly defined?
General categorical definitions always have two variants, a strict one, in which associativity and unity hold as equalities, and a weak one, in which they hold up to equivalence. However, every ...
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2-monads for categories with a class of (co)limits
This question concerns the strictness of (co)completions, at various levels of generality.
In Blackwell–Kelly–Power's Two-dimensional monad theory, the authors state
For instance, the 2-category $\...
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Coherence theorem in braided monoidal categories
In MacLane's Categories for the working mathematician, the author shows that the evaluation at 1 gives an equivalence of categories $\mathrm{hom}_{\mathrm{BMC}}(B,M)\simeq M_0$ where $B$ is the braid ...
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Mac Lane's proof of coherence for symmetric monoidal categories
This question only concerns the final part of the proof, so I assume that the symmetric monoidal category is a strict monoidal category $\mathsf{C}$ with the braiding $s$.
Let $X_1,...,X_n$ be ...
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Simple-minded coherence of tricategories
Recall Mac Lane's version of coherence for monoidal categories, which one can state informally as follows:
"Simple-minded" coherence for monoidal categories
Let $A$, $A^\prime$ be two ...
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Coherence for pseudomonads and their pseudoalgebras
Let $\mathcal K$ be a bicategory. For every pseudomonad $T : \mathcal K \to \mathcal K$, does there exist a 2-monad $S : \mathcal C \to \mathcal C$, where $\mathcal C$ is a 2-category biequivalent to $...
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A definition of the homotopy colimit of a coherent diagram
Suppose I am given a homotopy coherent diagram of spaces of shape $I$ (This is a simplicial functor $F:\mathfrak{C}[I] \to Top$, where $\mathfrak{C}$ is the standard cofibrant replacement functor in ...
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Why is the category of strong braided functors from the braid category to a braided monoidal $M$ equivalent to the subcategory of *strict* functors?
This is my first, and probably my last, (for a while) posting on MO. I am very much a student and I don't claim to be a research mathematician, at all, but I have seen that sometimes "regular&...
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Necessity of shapes for coherence results in category theory
The classic coherence theorems of MacLane (Natural associativity and commutativity, Rice U. studies, 1963) talked about natural transformations between functors. By 1971 (Kelly-MacLane, Coherence in ...
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Coherence laws when composing 2-monads
To have the composition of two monads be a monad itself, we need a
distributive law natural transformation satisfying certain coherence
laws.
I'm interested in the strict 2-monad case, i.e. a strict ...
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Example of a pseudomonad on Cat whose pseudoalgebras are not the pseudoalgebras for a 2-monad
For every pseudomonad $T$ on the 2-category of (locally small) categories $\mathbf{Cat}$, we can consider the 2-category of $T$-pseudoalgebras and pseudomorphisms $T\text{-PsAlg}_p$, which is equipped ...
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A recursive attempt at $n$-dimensional coherence
For the purposes of this post we will use the one hom class definition of a category.
Note that a functor $F:\mathcal{C}\to\mathcal{D}$ between categories is a pair of functions $F_0:{\bf Ob}_\mathcal{...
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Strictification for closed monoidal categories
The strictification theorem for monoidal categories states that every monoidal categorically is monoidally equivalent to a strict monoidal category. Is there a strictification theorem for closed ...
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Is there a reasoned derivation of the coherence conditions for symmetric rig categories?
I know what the coherence conditions are, I can look them up in
M. Laplaza, Coherence for distributivity, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 281, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1972, pp. 29-72.
In theory, ...
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Full coherence for non-symmetric linearly distributive categories?
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Mac Lane's coherence theorem for monoidal categories can be phrased as "every formal diagram in a monoidal category commutes.“ I am interested in this type of coherence question for ...
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Coherence for closed bicategories
A right-closed bicategory [1] is a bicategory that has all right extensions (i.e. right adjoints to precomposition with a fixed 1-cell). A one-object right-closed bicategory is therefore a right-...
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Bⁿ and coherence
I understand that an internal abelian group in CW-complexes (while it is not the most extensive structure for which this can be done) produces a classifying space which itself has the structure of an ...
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Coherence of the graphical language for pivotal categories
Throughout I follow A survey of graphical languages for monoidal categories, Peter Selinger, arXiv.
A pivotal category is a monoidal category where each object $A$ has a dual $A^*$, together with a ...
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Pseudomodules, "general coherence theorem"
A pseudomonoid is defined within a monoidal bicategory. It is like a monoid in a monoidal category except that the usual axioms hold up to coherent invertible 2-cells. Pseudomonoid is like a monoidal ...
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Strictification of $\mathcal{V}$-pseudofunctors
Let $\mathcal{B}$ be a bicategory. Section 4.10 of Gordon, Power and Street's paper "Coherence for Tricategories" states that there is a bicategory $\textbf{st}\mathcal{B}$ and a ...
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What is the suitable setting for supercoherence with value in a bicategory?
It was J.F. Jardine established the so called supercoherence theory in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra Volume 75, Issue 2, 18 October 1991, Pages 103–194. The result can be roughly stated as ...
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Prime ideals being finitely-generated implies coherence?
Let $R$ be a non-noetherian local domain. Suppose that the following two conditions hold for $R$$\colon$
$(*)$$~\quad$An arbitrary prime ideal ${\frak P}$ of $R$ such that ${\mathrm{ht}}({\frak P}) &...
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Predicting coherence diagrams one dimension up
Assume we have a good working knowledge of $n$-dimensional category theory for some fixed $n$. It seems like it should be possible to 'predict' what coherence diagrams we're going to encounter in the ...
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Coherence of subrings of K[[X,Y]]
Let $K[[X,Y]]$ be a two-variables formal power series ring over a field $K$. Consider a sub-ring $\iota \colon A \subset K[[X,Y]]$.
Q. Is A coherent? $\quad$ Or is it automatic that $\iota$ is ...
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Strange subscheme in ${\mathrm{Spec}} R \times {\Bbb A}^1_{\Bbb C}$
Let ${\Bbb C}[X_1,\ldots,X_n]$ be a $n$-variable polynomial ring over a complex number field ${\Bbb C}$. For its maximal ideal $(X_1,\ldots,X_n)$, we define the geometric regular local ring as
$R \...
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