Questions tagged [ct.category-theory]
Enriched categories, topoi, abelian categories, monoidal categories, homological algebra.
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Characterization of geometric morphisms without referring explicitly to the left adjoint?
Recall that a functor $f_\ast : \mathcal E \to \mathcal F$ between toposes is called a geometric morphism if it has a left exact left adjoint $f^\ast$. Is there an intrinsic characterization of such ...
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References for homotopy colimit
(1) What are some good references for homotopy colimits?
(2) Where can I find a reference for the following concrete construction of a homotopy colimit? Start with a partial ordering, which I will ...
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Cofinality for coends?
Recall that a functor $I \xrightarrow u J$ is cofinal if it has the property that for any functor $J \xrightarrow F C$, we have that $\varinjlim F \cong \varinjlim Fu$ via the canonical map, either ...
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What's an example of an "adjunction up to adjunction"?
(There are several dialects of 2-categorical language. Mine is the one where everything is weak by default. You might need to insert the word "weak" or "pseudo" (or even "strong", if your default is ...
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Pullbacks as manifolds versus ones as topological spaces
My question is: Does the forgetful functor F:(Mfd) $\to$ (Top) preserve pullbacks?
Detailed explanation is following.
A pullback is defined as a manifold/topological space satisfying a universal ...
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Physical interpretations/meanings of the notion of a sheaf?
I fairly understand the fiber bundles, both the mathematical concept of fiber bundles and the physics use of fiber bundles. Because the fiber bundles are tightly connected to the gauge field theory in ...
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Learning roadmap to TQFT from a mathematics perspective
I had asked a question on math.stackexchange but did not receive any answers. I hope that this question is appropriate for this website as it is about an advanced subject. Hence I am posting it below.
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Descent of Higher categorical structures along geometric morphisms
Let $f: \mathcal{E} \rightarrow \mathcal{T}$ be a geometric morphism between two (Grothendieck) toposes (or maybe more generally a bounded geometric morphism between elementary toposes).
It is well ...
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Why are inverse images more important than images in mathematics?
Why are inverse images of functions more central to mathematics than the image?
I have a sequence of related questions:
Why the fixation on continuous maps as opposed to open maps? (Is there an ...
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Does the classification diagram localize a category with weak equivalences?
Let $(C,W)$ be a category equipped with a subcategory of weak equivalences. Its "classification diagram" or "bisimplicial nerve" $N(C,W)$ is a bisimplicial set, for which $N(C,W)_n$ is the nerve of ...
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Is there an "injective version" of the Bergner model structure?
The Bergner model structure on $sCat$ (simplicially enriched categories) has a "projective" flavor: fibrations are "levelwise" while cofibrations satisfy stringent relative "freeness" conditions.
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Is Freyd's thesis available online anywhere?
Peter Freyd is a great category theorist. His PhD dissertation, Functor Theory, dates from Princeton in 1960. It's cited as [14] in Mitchell's book Theory of categories. In fact, Google scholar says ...
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What is known about module categories over general monoidal categories?
All of the literature I have seen on module categories over monoidal categories has been in the rigid $k$-linear semisimple case, more or less in the spirit of Ostrik's paper,
Ostrik, V. Module ...
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The state of the art in the rectification of homotopy-coherent structures
My question concerns rectification theorems for homotopy-coherent structures. As the meaning of this may be unclear, let me list a few examples of what I am thinking of:
Cordier and Porter proved a ...
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The real numbers object in Sh(Top)
If $X$ is a sober topological space, the real numbers object in the topos $\mathrm{Sh}(X)$ is the sheaf of continuous real-valued functions on $X$. This is proven very explicitly in Theorem VI.8.2 of ...
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Categorifying the Reals via von Neumann Algebras?
So one way to categorify the natural numbers is to replace them with vector spaces. Then the dimension of the vector space reproduces the natural number. More generally you can categorify integers to ...
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What are the algebras for the ultrafilter monad on topological spaces?
Motivation: Let $(X,\tau)$ be a topological space. Then the set $\beta X$ of ultrafilters on $X$ admits a natural topology (cf. Example 5.14 in Adámek and Sousa - D-ultrafilters and their monads), ...
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Rectifying the definition of a closed category
The definition of a closed category I'm using is here.
Suppose $V$ is a closed category and that for each object $b\in V$, $[b,-]$ has a left adjoint $- \otimes b$. The result is nearly a monoidal ...
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Propositional logic with categories
I have some vague sense that certain types of categories are related to certain types of logic. I've been meaning to learn more about this, so I thought I'd ask about the simplest case, propositional ...
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Convolution algebras for double groupoids?
There is a lot of work of course on convolution algebras of measured groupoids, and this gives "Noncommutative geometry". However there is a lot of interest in algebraically structured groupoids, for ...
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Ordinals in constructive mathematics ? (references)
I'm looking for references presenting a constructive treatment of the theory of ordinals. By constructive I mean valid in the internal logic of a topos (so no axiom of choice and no law of excluded ...
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What is an isomorphism of Banach spaces?
The nLab page on Banach spaces (http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Banach%20space) was recently criticised as being, in effect, too heavily biased to category theory (not of the Baire kind) and not enough ...
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Can the opposite of an elementary topos be an elementary topos?
This question is not really about elementary topoi, it is much more about a category $(\mathcal{E}, \Omega)$ admitting a subobject classifier, or about a category with power objects, you can choose ...
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Pseudofunctors out of the lax Gray tensor product
I feel like I should know the answer to this, but I don't think I do.
The Gray tensor product of 2-categories $C$ and $D$ is a "fattening up" of the cartesian product $C\times D$ in which the ...
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Why it is convenient to be cartesian closed for a category of spaces?
In 1967 Steenrod wrote what later became a quite celebrated paper, A convenient category of topological spaces (Michigan Math. J. 14 (1967) 133–152). The paper conveys the work of many (among the most ...
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Modern versions of Verdier's hypercovering theorem?
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a small category equipped with a terminal object $1$ and a Grothendieck topology. (Assume $\mathcal{C}$ also has pullbacks, if it is more convenient.) The following is a ...
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Monoidal functors $\mathcal C \to [\mathcal D,\mathcal V]$ are monoidal functors $\mathcal C \otimes \mathcal D \to \mathcal V$?
It is well known (e.g., Reference for "lax monoidal functors" = "monoids under Day convolution" ) that if $\mathcal C$ is a monoidal $\mathcal V$-enriched category, then a monoid ...
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Enriched cartesian closed categories
Let $V$ be a complete and cocomplete cartesian closed category. Feel free to assume more about $V$ if necessary; in my application $V$ is simplicial sets, so it is a presheaf topos and hence has all ...
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How should we define "locally small"?
Let U be a Grothendieck universe, and U+ its successor universe (assume Grothendieck's universe axiom).
Everybody agrees that a U-small category is a category whose sets of objects and morphisms are ...
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Complexity of coherence diagrams in an $n$-category
As we proceed from categories to bicategories to tricategories to tetracategories, the coherence diagrams expand at an alarming rate, taking up a page, then 5 pages, then 51 pages. There is a shared ...
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Model category structure on Set without axiom of choice
There is a model category structure on Set in which the cofibrations are the monomorphisms, the fibrations are maps which are either epimorphisms or have empty domain, and the weak equivalences are ...
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Link between internal groupoids and stacks on a topos ?
Hello !
If I a have a grothendieck Site (C,J), I can consider :
The Stacks on (C,J) : category fibered in groupoid over C which statisfy suitable descent condition with respect to the covering sieve ...
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What are the tangent $\infty$-categories to $\mathrm{Top}^\mathrm{op}$ and $E_\infty$-$\mathrm{Ring}^\mathrm{op}$?
Given an $\infty$-category $\mathcal{C}$ with finite limits and finite colimits, there are two ways to make it stable. One is to pass to the pointed objects and take the category of $\Omega$ objects $\...
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Are compact objects in presheaf categories finite colimits of representables?
An object $x$ in a category $\mathsf{C}$ is called compact or finitely presentable if $$\mathrm{hom}(x,-) : \mathsf{C} \to \mathsf{Set}$$ preserves filtered colimits. This concept behaves best when $...
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What is a monoidal metric space?
At time of writing, the highest rated answer to my question What is a metric space? is Tom Leinster's account of Lawvere's description of a metric space as an enriched category. This prompted my ...
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Is every finitely-presentable group a finite colimit of copies of $F_2$?
Let $F_n$ be the free group on $n$ generators. Of course, every finitely-presentable group $G$ is a finite colimit of copies of $F_n$, where $n$ is allowed to vary. But is $G$ a finite colimit of ...
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Automorphisms of Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces and semidirect products (and the odd line)
If $A$ is an abelian group, we have
$Aut\left(K\left(A,n\right)\right)=Aut(A) \ltimes K\left(A,n\right),$
where the left hand side is the space of self-homotopy equivalences. Is there an easy way to ...
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Is there a large colimit-sketch for topological spaces?
Question. Is there a large colimit-sketch $\mathcal{S}$ such that $\mathrm{Mod}(\mathcal{S}) \simeq \mathbf{Top}$?
In other words, is there a category $\mathcal{E}$ with a class of cocones $\mathcal{S}...
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What are internal complete atomic boolean algebras, intuitively?
The category of complete atomic boolean algebras $\mathbf{CABA}$ is equivalent to $\mathbf{Set}^{\mathrm{op}}$ via
$$\mathbf{Set}^{\mathrm{op}} \to \mathbf{CABA}, ~ X \mapsto (P(X),\bigcup,\bigcap).$$
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Is there a universal property characterizing the category of compact Hausdorff spaces?
This is in some sense a follow up to the question asked here Properties of the category of compact Hausdorff spaces
To clarify: The category $\text{Prof}$ of profinite sets sits inside the category $\...
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A locally presentable locally cartesian closed category that is not a quasitopos
This question asks for a locally presentable locally cartesian closed category that is not a topos. All the answers given (at least in the 1-categorical case) are quasitoposes. What is an example of ...
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Status of Thomason's idea for a symmetric monoidal model of stable homotopy - from his last paper
In 1995, Robert Thomason published “Symmetric monoidal categories model all connective spectra” in TAC. On page 2, he argues that symmetric monoidal categories are more convenient than “May’s ...
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The Kan construction, profunctors, and Kan extensions
It's been a long time since I tried to understand the deep meaning of the "Kan construction", or "nerve-realization" adjunction
$$
\text{Lan}_y F \dashv N_F = \hom(F,1)
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that exists among the left ...
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(Co)complete topoi that are not Grothendieck?
Recall that an elementary topos is a cartesian closed category with finite limits and a subobject classifier. A Grothendieck topos is a category equivalent to the category of sheaves on a site.
Are ...
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Reference request: Heyting algebra structure on Catalan numbers
I've noticed that for every natural number $n\in\mathbb{N}$, there is a finite Heyting algebra with cardinality $C(n)$, where $C(n)$ is the $n$th Catalan number,
$$1,1,2,5,14,42,132,\ldots$$
I'm ...
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When is a stable $\infty$-category the stabilization of an $\infty$-topos?
Let $\mathcal X$ be a presentable $\infty$-category. Then the stabilization $Stab(\mathcal X)$ of $\mathcal X$ is the universal presentable stable category on $\mathcal X$.
Conversely, if $\mathcal A$ ...
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Condensed / pyknotic sets in terms of forcing over Boolean-valued models of set theory / multiverse concepts?
Here is one way of saying what a pyknotic set is. Fix an inaccessible cardinal $\kappa$, and let $Proj_\kappa$ be the category of $\kappa$-small, extremally disconnected compact Hausdorff spaces. ...
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Non-commutative duality I: Which C*-algebras are (isomorphic to a) convolution algebra?
Many interesting C*-algebras can be realized as convolution algebras over a groupoid, an idea introduced in 1980 by Jean Renault (this entry in nLab provides plenty of context to the general approach ...
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Are monads monadic?
Is there some sort of monad whose algebras are monads? How about if we are internal to a bicategory B? Are internal monads in B monadic? Certainly not always, as otherwise free T-multicategories a la ...
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Describing fiber products in stable $\infty$-categories
Let $f\colon X \rightarrow Z$ and $g\colon Y \rightarrow Z$ be two morphisms in a stable infinity category $\mathcal{C}$. How does one show that the $\infty$-categorical fiber product $X \times_Z Y$ ...