Directed Algebraic Topology, Categories and Higher Categories

Directed Algebraic Topology, Categories and Higher Categories

Directed Algebraic Topology is a recent field, deeply linked with Category Theory. A ‘directed space’ has directed homotopies (generally non reversible), directed homology groups (enriched with a preorder) and fundamental n-categories (replacing the fundamental ngroupoids of the classical case). On the other hand, directed homotopy can give geometric models for lax higher categories. Applicatio...

ON ALGEBRAIC AND COALGEBRAIC CATEGORIES OF VARIETY-BASED TOPOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Motivated by the recent study on categorical properties of latticevalued topology, the paper considers a generalization of the notion of topological system introduced by S. Vickers, providing an algebraic and a coalgebraic category of the new structures. As a result, the nature of the category   TopSys   of S. Vickers gets clari ed, and a metatheorem is stated, claiming that (latticevalu...

Higher Cospans and Weak Cubical Categories (cospans in Algebraic Topology, I)

We define a notion of weak cubical category, abstracted from the structure of n-cubical cospans x : ∧ → X in a category X, where ∧ is the ‘formal cospan’ category. These diagrams form a cubical set with compositions x +i y in all directions, which are computed using pushouts and behave ‘categorically’ in a weak sense, up to suitable comparisons. Actually, we work with a ‘symmetric cubical struc...

Higher Cospans and Weak Cubical Categories ( Cospans in Algebraic Topology , I ) Marco

We define a notion of weak cubical category, abstracted from the structure of n-cubical cospans x : ∧ → X in a category X, where ∧ is the ‘formal cospan’ category. These diagrams form a cubical set with compositions x +i y in all directions, which are computed using pushouts and behave ‘categorically’ in a weak sense, up to suitable comparisons. Actually, we work with a ‘symmetric cubical struc...

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