Questions tagged [ct.category-theory]
Enriched categories, topoi, abelian categories, monoidal categories, homological algebra.
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Exact sequences in Positselski's coderived category induce distinguished triangles
I am learning about Positselski's co- and contraderived categories. We know that short exact sequences do not generally induce distinguished triangles in the homotopy category but they do in the usual ...
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Is every locally $\kappa$-presentable category, also locally $\tau$-presentable for any $\tau > \kappa$?
Let $\kappa$ be a small regular cardinal and $D$ a locally $\kappa$-presentable category. Is it true that $D$ is also locally $\tau$-presentable for any $\tau > \kappa.$
Adamek und Rosicky show in &...
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Is there a way to “derive” a (non-exact) functor which preserves images?
Let $F : \mathcal A \to \mathcal B$ be an additive functor between abelian categories. If $F$ is left exact, then under certain conditions $F$ admits right derived functors which “measure” its failure ...
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Is every compact, sober, second-countable space the image of $2^\omega$?
As a bonus, is every compact, $T_0$, second-countable space the image of $2^\omega \times \omega$?
As a further bonus, can we strengthen "image" to "quotient"?
My motivation for ...
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What can be said about the free-forgetful adjunction of monad algebras with respect to topoi?
For a monad T on a topos E, if T has a right adjoint, then the Eilenberg-Moore category of algebras of T is equivalent to the co-Eilenberg-Moore category of co-algebras for the right adjoint comonad ...
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Does the forgetful functor from Lie algebroids to vector bundles have a right adjoint
Let $\mathcal{S}$ be an appropriate category of smooth spaces, and let $\mathrm{Vect} \colon \mathcal{S}^\mathrm{op} \to \mathsf{Cat}$ be the functor sending a space to the category of vector bundles ...
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Relations with "for each" composition and its properties (coming from profunctors with end composition)
$\newcommand{\sq}{\mathbin{\square}}$The usual composition $S\diamond R$ of two relations $R\colon A⇸B$ and $S\colon B⇸C$ is defined as follows:
For each $(a,c)\in A\times C$, we declare $a\sim_{S\...
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Kernels and cokernels in a quotient of an abelian category
I am trying to understand the construction of the quotient of an abelian category called the Serre quotient or Gabriel quotient. From the description here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Classifying the algebraic structure on endomorphism sets
This is motivated by defining modules in a general sense, which is an appropriate homomorphism from $R$ to $\textrm{End}(X)$. If $X$ comes from different categories, the endomorphism set will have ...
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Which revolutions in topology and geometry can we expect in the next 20 years? [closed]
In my limited perspective on the history of mathematics, I can name at least two big revolutions in Topology and Geometry (broadly construed): the introduction of Schemes in Algebraic Geometry, and ...
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Compact objects in slice categories of finitely presentable categories
Given a locally finitely presentable category $\mathscr C$ and an object $X \in \mathscr C$, it is not so hard to show that a morphism $(X \to Y)$ is compact in $\mathscr C_{X/}$ if it can be obtained ...
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Are flat functors out of a finite category necessarily finite?
Note: I've originally asked this question on math stack exchange, but I have learnt that this is the better place to ask for research level questions, so I have deleted the original question there.
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Day convolution and sheafification
$\DeclareMathOperator\Psh{Psh}\DeclareMathOperator\Sh{Sh}\newcommand\copower{\mathrm{copower}}$I was looking through Bodil Biering's thesis On the Logic of Bunched Implications - and its relation to ...
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Does the 2-category of double categories and vertical transformations have flexible limits?
Consider the 2-category of pseudo-double categories (with the weak composition in the horizontal direction and the strict composition in the vertical direction), strong double functors, and vertical ...
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Why are Gabriel categories closed under localization?
Let $\mathcal K$ be a Grothendieck category. Recall the Gabriel filtration $0 \subseteq \mathcal K_1 \subseteq \cdots \mathcal K$ of localizing subcategories, where $\mathcal K_{\alpha+1}$ is ...
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Looking for Lawvere's "Closed categories and biclosed bicategories" lecture notes
The nLab page on closed bicategories reads
Closed bicategories were introduced by Lawvere in unpublished lecture notes Closed categories and biclosed bicategories (1971).
This work has also been ...
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Recover the $C_k$-action of a cyclic object as from the $S^1$-action on Hochschild chain
$\newcommand{\Fun}{\operatorname{Fun}}$Let $X\in\Fun(\Lambda^\mathrm{op}, \mathcal{C})$ be a cyclic object in the ($\infty$-)symmetric monoidal category $\mathcal{C}$, where $\Lambda$ is the cyclic ...
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Example of a Grothendieck category which is not Gabriel?
Following Gabriel, for $\mathcal C$ a Grothendieck category, set $\mathcal T(\mathcal C)$ to be the localizing subcategory generated by the objects of finite length, and $\mathcal C' = \mathcal C / \...
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Beck's original formulation of the precise tripleability theorem. Reference when considering reflexive pairs?
Thanks to MO's user Varkor, we have access to Beck's original untitled manuscript where Beck first stated his precise tripleability theorem. Up to terminological isomorphism, the PTT as stated in p. 3 ...
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Left duals and right duals are also isomorphic in a semisimple category
In the n-Lab page
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/rigid+monoidal+category
it is written that
Left duals and right duals are also isomorphic in a semisimple
category.
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Logical content of Gauss's Lemma (arithmetic)
In the context where $a$, $b$, $c$ are integers we have $(a \mid bc, a\land b = 1) \Rightarrow a\mid c$. This result is called Gauss's Lemma in French Highschool.
It is well known that (Steve Awodey, ...
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Categories on which one can determine all model structures?
Famously, there are exactly nine model structures on the category of sets, which are detailed here. In this case, one can exhaustively determine all six weak factorization systems and then see which ...
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Examples of $\ast$-autonomous $(\infty,1)$-categories
A $\ast$-autonomous category is a biclosed monoidal category together with a dualizing object. An object $\bot$ in a biclosed monoidal category $(\mathcal{C},\otimes)$ with left internal hom $[-,-]$ ...
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Can every weighted colimit in a $\mathbf{Pos}$-enriched category be rephrased as a conical colimit?
For ordinary category theory, we have the following fact.
A weighted colimit of a functor can always be equivalently expressed as a colimit of a different functor.
Specifically, the weighted colimit ...
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Is there any categorical version of central limit theorem?
I'm not sure if the question even makes sense, but I wonder if there's any categorical reason that explains importance of Gaussian/normal distribution. In the ordinary probability theory, I guess ...
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Natural ways to make a functor adjoint
Let $F: C \to D$ be a functor between two categories without a right adjoint. What are some natural ways to create a right adjoint for $F$?
Of course, this does not make sense on the nose. One needs ...
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Classical first-order model theory via hyperdoctrines
I have been reading this discussion by John Baez and Michael Weiss and I find this approach to model theory using boolean hyper-doctrines very interesting. One of their goal was to arrive at a proof ...
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Are there (non Lagrangian) algebras of Turaev-Viro TQFTs which cannot be completed to Lagrangian algebras?
Consider a 3d TQFT of the Turaev-Viro type, say TV$(\mathcal{C})$, where $\mathcal{C}$ is some fusion category. Equivalently, this is a TQFT admitting Lagrangian algebra objects $\mathcal{L}$ of the ...
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Can finite presentability be tested with respect to sequential colimits?
Let $\mathcal C$ be a locally finitely-presentable category, and let $C \in \mathcal C$ be an object such that for all sequential colimits, the map $$\varinjlim \operatorname{Hom}(C, X_i) \to \...
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When is a container a monad?
The category of polynomial functors on Set is equivalent to the category of containers.
We have a prescription for when a container is a comonad.
There are a few other questions that come to mind. ...
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When would a left admissible triangulated subcategory be admissible
I'm walking through the proof of [1, Thm 16 at pp. 515] and am stuck at the first sentence after equation (12), where the author states that the decomposition (12) is semiorthogonal when $a\geq 0$. ...
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Tannaka duality for Hopf algebroids
Setting. Let $k$ be a field, $A$ a finite-dimensional $k$-algebra, and $H$ a Hopf algebroid over $A$ with invertible antipode. Denote by $\operatorname{mod}(H)$ the category of finite-dimensional ...
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Why does mathematics seem to have a polarity bias?
Why does mathematics seem to have a polarity bias, i.e., why are products more common than coproducts, algebras more common than coalgebras, limits more common than colimits, monads more common than ...
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Monoidal topology and coarse spaces
Is there a description of (quasi-)coarse spaces that is analogous to the description of (quasi-)uniform spaces as lax algebras?
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Site structure on smooth fibered manifolds
Let $\mathsf{FB}_{s}$ be the category whose objects are smooth fibered manifolds, and whose morphisms are smooth strong projectable maps. Recall that given fibered manifolds $(\pi:Y\rightarrow X)$ and ...
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Is uniform dimension monotonic in quotients when there is a unique indecomposable injective?
The notion of uniform or Goldie dimension is something I’ve only seen discussed for categories of modules, but I believe the theory works the same way in any Grothendieck category $\mathcal C$. Recall ...
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Are fibrations of small categories fibrations?
The isofibrations are the fibrations of the canonical model structure of the category of small categories. If I call fibration of small categories the same notion by removing the word isomorphism, i.e....
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Existence and characterisations of left Kan extensions and liftings in the bicategory of relations II
This is the second part to a previous question regarding left Kan extensions/lifts in the bicategory $\mathsf{Rel}$ of sets, relations, and inclusions of relations, which has now been split into two ...
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Categorical description of umbral calculus?
The theme of my current research project is related to umbral calculus in the context of more general algebraic structures, like Hopf algebras (and, in particular, shuffle algebras), so I am trying to ...
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The category theoretic origin of arithmetic product
$\newcommand\Bij{\mathrm{Bij}}\newcommand\Set{\mathrm{Set}}\newcommand\Species{\mathrm{Species}}$The paper "On the arithmetic product of combinatorial species" by Maia and Méndez introduces ...
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Does every $\kappa$-compact topos embedd relatively $\kappa$-tidily into a presheaf topos?
Let $\kappa$ be a regular cardinal and say that a topos $\mathcal{E}$ is $\kappa$-compact if the global sections $\gamma_{\ast} : \mathcal{E} \to \mathsf{Set}$ preserves $\kappa$-filtered colimits.
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Why equaliser of product and terminal object is coproduct?
I’m reading “Sheaves in geometry and logic”, in page 80:
Please refer to [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/INrU0.jpg
It says “…,therefore $FU=\coprod_{x\in U} fx$. The space…”.
So could anyone please ...
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Drinfeld center of non-rigid closed monoidal categories
Context.
The Drinfeld center of a rigid monoidal category $\mathcal{C}$ is again rigid. This is not hard to see: Given an object $X\in \mathcal{C}$ together with a half-braiding $\phi_X:X\otimes-\...
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What is the commutative coproduct and where can I learn more about it?
This is a reformulation of a Mathematics Stack Exchange question that got no answer there, and, at the same time, a follow-up to another question on MSE.
The original problem was to prove $U(\mathfrak{...
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What exactly is a Tannakian subcategory?
I've searched all the standard references (Deligne--Milne, Saavedra-Rivano) and cannot find a definition of Tannakian subcategory. What I find is many authors who discuss the Tannakian subcategory ...
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Has anyone studied factoring as a CO-product?
In factorization, like integer factorization, you start with an integer and end up with a kind-of list of pairs of other elements, namely the factors.
I want to explore the "Co-ness" of this....
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Is this an instance of the snake lemma?
I recently had need of the following fact (in the category of abelian groups, but I'm pretty sure it holds for all abelian categories): given a commutative diagram of the form
(quiver link), thus $k \...
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Coevaluation for linear categories
For a field $k$ and an associative $k$-algebra $R$, the $k$-linear category $R\operatorname{-Mod}$ is self dual inside $\operatorname{DGCat}_k$, with the counit map sending $k$ to $R$ regarded as a ...
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The algebras and coalgebras of the homology functor
My question is very simple, but I suspect far from the intuition with which singular homology is introduced.
Consider singular homology as a functor
$$H_n : {\sf Top}\times{\sf Ab} \to \sf Ab$$
This ...
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Using the mapping cone to show that a chain map defines a stable equivalence between two symmetric algebras
This question is about an argument in the proof of Theorem 9.8.8 in Linckelmanns Block Theory of Finite Group Algebras. I need to understand the argument in order to do something similar in my ...
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