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28 votes
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When are modules and representations not the same thing?

19 votes
1 answer
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Why did people originally like Frobenius algebras?

13 votes
1 answer
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Co-ends as a trace operation on profunctors

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5 answers
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Where are some interesting places where the axiom of choice crops up in category theory?

9 votes
1 answer
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Re-seating a monad

7 votes
1 answer
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In what cases does a Yoneda-like embedding preserve monoidal structure?

6 votes
4 answers
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Are there natural examples of non-symmetric Frobenius algebras?

6 votes
1 answer
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Categories whose objects are CW-complexes

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5 answers
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Computing colimits in a Lawvere theory

6 votes
1 answer
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Profunctors corresponding to "partial functors"

5 votes
1 answer
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Where does the "easy" definition of a weak n-category fail?

3 votes
0 answers
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An elegant formulation for typed sets

2 votes
1 answer
937 views

What is the comultiplication of a matrix frobenius algebra?

1 vote
2 answers
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Is it possible to define a graph that has two vertices that are infinitely far apart?

1 vote
1 answer
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Algebras with a degenerate trace form

1 vote
2 answers
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Rig of fractions, including zero denominators

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Are sieves in locally small categories still sets?