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

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Higher categories and semirings

Maybe my thinking here is completely wrong headed, but this seems like something that ought to have been answered before. Here is my question: What is the (n - )categorical analogue of a semiring …
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Category = Groupoid x Poset?

Given any locally small category, $C$, the collection of all isomorphisms forms a subgroupoid, $G \subseteq C$, where $Ob(G) = Ob(C)$ and $Hom_G(A,B) = \left ( f \in Hom_C(A,B) : \exists g, h \in Hom_ …
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Is it reasonable to define `poset homotopy' as a `natural transformation of posets'?

Pausing to speak metaphorically for a bit, I have always thought of partial orders as being something like a simplified version of topological spaces. (In the finite case at least, all topological sp …
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Category theoretic interpretation of matroids?

First time poster, long time lurker here. I have a really basic question that has been bugging me for sometime. Specifically, I'm not exactly sure what the 'correct' category theoretic definition of …
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