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What did Gelfand mean by suggesting to study "Heredity Principle" structures instead of categories?
Israel Gelfand wrote in his remarkable talk "Mathematics as an adequate language (a few remarks)", given at "The Unity of Mathematics" Conference in honor of his 90th birthday, the ...
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Enriched Categories: Ideals/Submodules and algebraic geometry
While working through Atiyah/MacDonald for my final exams I realized the following:
The category(poset) of ideals $I(A)$ of a commutative ring A is a closed symmetric monoidal category if endowed ...
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Is there anything to the obvious analogy between Joyal's combinatorial species and Goodwillie calculus?
Combinatorial species and calculus of functors both take the viewpoint that many interesting functors can be expanded in a kind of Taylor series. Many operations familiar from actual calculus can be ...
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Computer calculations in $A_\infty$ categories?
Is there a good computer program for doing calculations in $A_\infty$ categories?
Explicit calculations in $A_\infty$ categories are an important, useful, yet very tedious task. One has to keep track ...
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The $(\infty, 1)$-category of all topological spaces, including the bad ones
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Let $\mathcal{S}$ be the cocomplete (∞, 1)-category generated by a point.
This is conventionally known as the (∞, 1)-category of spaces, but for the purposes ...
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Did Grothendieck overestimate topoi?
I was reading the Russian translation of Recoltes et Semailles and in the footnote where Grothendieck lists his 12 contributions (including schemes) we find the following lines:
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Is Feferman's unlimited category theory dead?
In 2013 Solomon Feferman in Foundations of unlimited category theory: what remains to be done (The Review of Symbolic Logic, 6 (2013) pp 6-15, link) laid out three desirable axioms for "...
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What efforts have there been in trying to automate diagrammatic proofs in category theory?
Crossposting Note: This question has been crossposted to the Proof Assistants Stack Exchange.
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Perhaps one of the biggest issues when carrying out research ...
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What, precisely, do we mean when we say that a f.d. vector space is canonically isomorphic to its double dual?
I've been reading the Xena Project blog, which has been loads of fun. In the linked post Kevin gives the natural isomorphism $V \to V^{\ast \ast}$ from a f.d. vector space to its dual as an example of ...
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Caramello's theory: applications
In this text, the author says (well, he says it in French, but I am too lazy to fix all the accents, so here is a Google translation):
In any case, contemporary mathematics provides an example of ...
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$\infty$-topos and localic $\infty$-groupoids?
It's known that every classical (Grothendieck) topos is equivalent to the topos of sheaves on a localic groupoid (a groupoid in the category of locales).
For the record, this is proved by, starting ...
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The topologies for which a presheaf is a sheaf?
Given a set $S$, let $Top(S)$ denote the partially ordered set (poset) of topologies on $S$, ordered by fineness, so the discrete topology, $Disc(S)$, is maximal.
Suppose that $Q$ is a presheaf on $...
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Can the similarity between the Riesz representation theorem and the Yoneda embedding lemma be given a formal undergirding?
For example, by viewing Hilbert spaces as enriched categories in some fashion? (I suppose the same idea of considering the inner product of a Hilbert space as a generalized Hom-set has also been ...
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Is there some way to see a Hilbert space as a C-enriched category?
The inner product of vectors in a Hilbert space has many properties in common with a hom functor. I know that one can make a projectivized Hilbert space into a metric space with the Fubini-Study ...
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Homotopy flat DG-modules
A right DG-module $F$ over an associative DG-algebra (or DG-category) $A$ is said to be homotopy flat (h-flat for brevity) if for any acyclic left DG-module $M$ over $A$ the complex of abelian groups $...
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