In algebraic K-theory, the K-theory of a category C (usually equipped with some kind of additional data) is a sequence of abelian groups Ki(C) associated...
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K-theory is, roughly speaking, the study of a ring generated by vector bundles over a topological space or scheme. In algebraic topology, it is a cohomology...
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a monad is? John Baez, In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a monad is a triple ( T , η , μ ) {\displaystyle (T,\eta ,\mu )} consisting of a functor...
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Algebraic K-theory is a subject area in mathematics with connections to geometry, topology, ring theory, and number theory. Geometric, algebraic, and arithmetic...
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In category theory and its applications to other branches of mathematics, kernels are a generalization of the kernels of group homomorphisms, the kernels...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a section is a right inverse of some morphism. Dually, a retraction is a left inverse of some morphism. In...
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In mathematics, higher category theory is the part of category theory at a higher order, which means that some equalities are replaced by explicit arrows...
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In category theory, a discipline within mathematics, the nerve N(C) of a small category C is a simplicial set constructed from the objects and morphisms...
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the theory of categories concerns itself with the categories of being: the highest genera or kinds of entities. To investigate the categories of being...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a monoid (or monoid object, or internal monoid, or algebra) (M, μ, η) in a monoidal category (C, ⊗, I) is...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a pushout (also called a fibered coproduct or fibered sum or cocartesian square or amalgamated sum) is the...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a pullback (also called a fiber product, fibre product, fibered product or Cartesian square) is the limit...
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In algebra, given a ring R, the category of left modules over R is the category whose objects are all left modules over R and whose morphisms are all...
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Tannakian formalism (redirect from Tannakian category)
mathematics, a Tannakian category is a particular kind of monoidal category C, equipped with some extra structure relative to a given field K. The role of such...
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a skeleton. Glossary of category theory Thin category Adámek, Jiří, Herrlich, Horst, & Strecker, George E. (1990). Abstract and Concrete Categories....
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category of sets, whose objects are sets and whose arrows are functions. Category theory is a branch of mathematics that seeks to generalize all of mathematics...
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This is a glossary of properties and concepts in category theory in mathematics. (see also Outline of category theory.) Notes on foundations: In many...
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In category theory and related fields of mathematics, a refinement is a construction that generalizes the operations of "interior enrichment", like bornologification...
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In category theory, a span, roof or correspondence is a generalization of the notion of relation between two objects of a category. When the category has...
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category D(A) of an abelian category A is a construction of homological algebra introduced to refine and in a certain sense to simplify the theory of...
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additive category. In Ab, the notion of kernel in the category theory sense coincides with kernel in the algebraic sense, i.e. the categorical kernel of the...
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homological algebra and beyond; the theory has major applications in algebraic geometry, cohomology and pure category theory. Mac Lane says Alexander Grothendieck...
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In mathematics, particularly in homotopy theory, a model category is a category with distinguished classes of morphisms ('arrows') called 'weak equivalences'...
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Spectrum (topology) (redirect from Stable homotopy category)
cohomology theory in degree k {\displaystyle k} on a space X {\displaystyle X} is equivalent to computing the homotopy classes of maps to the space E k {\displaystyle...
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mathematics, topological K-theory is a branch of algebraic topology. It was founded to study vector bundles on topological spaces, by means of ideas now recognised...
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Groupoid (redirect from Groupoid (category theory))
especially in category theory and homotopy theory, a groupoid (less often Brandt groupoid or virtual group) generalises the notion of group in several...
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Coproduct (redirect from Coproduct (category theory))
In category theory, the coproduct, or categorical sum, is a construction which includes as examples the disjoint union of sets and of topological spaces...
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operator K-theory is a noncommutative analogue of topological K-theory for Banach algebras with most applications used for C*-algebras. Operator K-theory resembles...
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a Waldhausen category is a category C equipped with some additional data, which makes it possible to construct the K-theory spectrum of C using a so-called...
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the center (or Drinfeld center, after Soviet-American mathematician Vladimir Drinfeld) is a variant of the...
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