This article represents a preliminary attempt to link Kan extensions, and some of their further developments, to Fourier theory and quantum algebra through ∗autonomous monoidal categories and related structures. There is a close resemblance to convolution products and the Wiener algebra (of transforms) in functional analysis. The analysis term “kernel” (of a distribution) has also been adapted ...

Category theory provides a compact method of encoding mathematical structures in a uniform way, thereby enabling the use of general theorems on, for example, equivalence and universal constructions. In this article we develop the method of additional structures on the objects of a monoidal Kleisli category. It is proposed to consider any uniform class of information transformers (ITs) as a fami...

This paper establishes a relation between the notion of a codifferential category and the more classic theory of Kähler differentials in commutative algebra. A codifferential category is an additive symmetric monoidal category with a monad T , which is furthermore an algebra modality, i.e. a natural assignment of an associative algebra structure to each object of the form T (C). Finally, a codi...

We show that every modular category is equivalent as an additive ribbon category to the category of finite-dimensional comodules of a Weak Hopf Algebra. This Weak Hopf Algebra is finite-dimensional, split cosemisimple, weakly cofactorizable, coribbon and has trivially intersecting base algebras. In order to arrive at this characterization of modular categories, we develop a generalization of Ta...

We show, for a monoidal closed category V = (V0,⊗, I), that the category V -Cat of small V -categories is locally λ-presentable if V0 is so, and that it is locally λ-bounded if the closed category V is so, meaning that V0 is locally λ-bounded and that a side condition involving the monoidal structure is satisfied. Many important properties of a monoidal category V are inherited by the category ...

Let Sp be the category of symmetric spectra, regarded as having the stable model structure. We prove that the category of small categories enriched over Sp admits a model category structure. The method of proof applies to other categories than symmetric spectra as well, as long as these categories are linked to the category of simplicial sets via a certain strong monoidal Quillen pair.

Given an additive equational category with a closed symmetric monoidal structure and a potential dualizing object, we find sufficient conditions that the category of topological objects over that category has a good notion of full subcategories of strong and weakly topologized objects and show that each is equivalent to the chu category of the original category with respect to the dualizing obj...

We study the braided monoidal structure that the fusion product induces on the abelian category Wp-mod, the category of representations of the triplet W -algebra Wp. The Wp-algebras are a family of vertex operator algebras that form the simplest known examples of symmetry algebras of logarithmic conformal field theories. We formalise the methods for computing fusion products, developed by Nahm,...

Given an additive equational category with a closed symmetric monoidal structure and a potential dualizing object, we find sufficient conditions that the category of topological objects over that category has a good notion of full subcategories of strong and weakly topologized objects and show that each is equivalent to the chu category of the original category with respect to the dualizing obj...