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Enriched categories, topoi, abelian categories, monoidal categories, homological algebra.

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Intuition for the satellite of a functor

Occasionally in math I come across constructions or tools that are a bit convoluted. I can look at these constructions and see that they indeed perform the task they were made to do, but sometimes I c …
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Significance of the vanishing of $K_{-1}(A)$

In M. Schlichting's paper, he defines the negative $K$-theory for derived categories. In this he states that for $\mathcal{A}$ an idempotent complete (see below) triangulated category, $K_{-1}(\mathca …
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Positive definite kernels on categories

I'm wondering if there is any work on studying positive definite kernels on (the objects of a) category. By this I mean for a category $\mathcal{C}$, find a function $$ K: Ob\mathcal{C} \times Ob\mat …
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Is there a nice application of category theory to functional/complex/harmonic analysis?

At the suggestion of Yemon, I have moved my comment to an answer. The [Gelfand representation][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelfand_representation gives an equivalence between the category of …
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`Topos' with alternate subobject lattice?

We know that for any topos E, and for any object A in E, the subobjects of A, Sub(A), form a Heyting lattice. Does anybody know of any sort of modification of the definition of a topos that makes Sub …
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Why do categorical foundationalists want to escape set theory?

This is a question that I have seen asked passively in comments relating to the separation of category theory from set theory, but I haven't seen it addressed in full. I know that it's possible to fo …
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