Questions tagged [cartesian-closed-categories]
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Existence and explicit descriptions for left and right Kan extensions and lifts in bicategories of spans
Given a category $\mathcal{C}$, it follows from Proposition 4.1 of Day's
Brian Day, Limit spaces and closed span categories, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 420, 1974 (doi:10.1007/BFb0063100).
That ...
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Reference request for dinatural transformations arising from free Cartesian closed categories
Let $g_n$ be a discrete graph with $n$ nodes and $\operatorname{F}$ the free functor of the adjunction between the category of graphs and the category of Cartesian closed categories and functors, as ...
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Are the categories of definable dinatural transformations freely generated from discrete graphs?
It is well known that the dinatural transformations between multivariant functors defined in Functorial polymorphism don't form a category, because they do not compose in general, but some do. For any ...
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Is there a faithful functor from the freely generated bicartesian closed category to $\mathbf{Set}$?
Does there exist a faithful (bicartesian closed) functor $\operatorname F$ from the freely generated bicartesian closed category $\mathbf B$ to $\mathbf{Set}$? Preferably, $\mathbf B$ should contain ...
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Any papers on the Lambek graph-$\lambda$ calculus-adjunction and the semantics of the Hindley Milner type system?
Joachim Lambek has described an adjunction between the category of graphs and the category of positive intuitionistic calculi with iteration, see e. g. Introduction to Higher Order Categorical Logic ...
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For which categories can the Cartesian closedness of a category be described as a family of covariant functors?
The paper Functorial Polymorphism describes how parametric polymorphism can be described as dinatural transformations. It involves second order lambda calculus but my question is restricted to simply ...
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Where can I learn about Cartesian closed functors between categories of simply typed lambda calculus?
I'll try to describe the subject I am looking for literature on, or concept names that I can Google.
For each $n \geq 1$, let $\mathbf{STLC}_n$ be the category where the objects are all simply typed ...
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Does lambda polymorphism have some universal property?
To evaluate some typed lambda calculus applications, the type of the function might have to be "lifted" in order to match the type of the value it is applied to. For example, in the ...
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Second order lambda calculus as dinatural transformations in some category of CCCs
Let $\textbf{CART}$ be a category where the objects are all Cartesian closed categories (henceforth shortened as CCC). Is there any way to define the arrows so that $\textbf{CART}$ itself becomes ...
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Mention of Bernoulli principle by Bill Lawvere
In the Author Commentary to the reprint of the paper paper Diagonal Arguments and Cartesian Closed Categories in Theory and Applications of Categories Bill Lawvere wrote:
Although the cartesian-...
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Examples of cartesian-closed model categories
One of the main settings of my research are Cartesian-closed model categories. I would like to know as many interesting and/or important examples of such categories as possible. "Interesting"...
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Are condensed sets (locally) cartesian closed?
The category of condensed sets is the colimit of the toposes of $\kappa$-condensed sets over all cardinals $\kappa$, or equivalently the category of "small sheaves" on the large site of all ...
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When a monoidal closed category is cartesian closed
Let $C$ be a monoidal closed category with tensor $\otimes$ and internal hom $[-, -]$.
Suppose that
$C$ acts by adjoint monads, i.e. $- \otimes X$ is a comonad and $[X, -]$ is a monad, and each $F : ...
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Cartesian monoidal star-autonomous categories
Disclaimer: This is a crosspost (see MathStackexchange). Apologies if cross-posting is frowned upon. However, it seems that on Stackexchange there are not many people familiar with star-autonomous ...
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Existence of nontrivial categories in which every object is atomic
An object $X$ of a cartesian closed category $\mathbf C$ is atomic if $({-})^X \colon \mathbf C \to \mathbf C$ has a right adjoint (hence is also internally tiny). Intuitively, atomic objects are &...
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Group ring objects in a Cartesian closed category
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a Cartesian closed category, with $R$ a ring object in $\mathcal{C}$ and $G$ a group object in $\mathcal{C}$.
Is there literature on the notion of the 'group ring object' $R^G$?
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Categories in which finite powers commute with filtered colimits
If $\mathcal{C}$ is a category with finite products and filtered colimits, then we say that finite powers commute with filtered colimits in $\mathcal{C}$ if for each natural number $n$, the $n$th ...
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Is Set complete for the free CCC/lambda calculus over a monoidal signature?
To be precise, given a monoidal signature $S$ (i.e, a set of generating objects $O$ and morphisms with source and target taken in the free monoid over $O$) , we can generate the free Cartesian closed ...
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Why it is convenient to be cartesian closed for a category of spaces?
In 1967 Steenrod wrote what later became a quite celebrated paper, A convenient category of topological spaces (Michigan Math. J. 14 (1967) 133–152). The paper conveys the work of many (among the most ...
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Does the morphism of composition have some universal property?
Let $A$, $B$ and $C$ be three objects in the category Set. For simplicity, assume that their underlying sets contain a finite number of elements, a, b and c respectively. Using the usual Haskell ...
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When is a locally presentable category (locally) cartesian-closed?
Let $\kappa$ be a regular cardinal. A category $\mathscr C$ is locally $\kappa$-presentable iff it is the free completion of a small $\kappa$-cocomplete category under $\kappa$-filtered colimits. Is ...
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Alternative definition of power object in a category
The standard definition of a power object seems to be: objects $\mathcal{P}X, K \in \mathbf{C}$ and a monic $\in: K \hookrightarrow X \times \mathcal{P}X$ such that for every monic $r: A \...
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Strictifying closed monoidal categories?
Let $C$ be a cartesian closed category. It's well known that $C$ is equivalent to a category where the product is strict monoidal; i.e. where there are equalities of the functors given by the ...
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Need to know if a certain full subcategory of Top is cartesian closed
Consider the full subcategory of Top consisting of all spaces $X$ such that a subset $A$ of $X$ is closed if and only if $A \cap K$ is closed in $K$ for all subspaces $K$ of $X$ which are countably ...
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Does Cantor Bernstein hold in a Closed Symmetric Monoidal Category?
In a closed symmetric monoidal category with $[I,X] \cong X$ for all $X$ is it true that having monomorphisms $m :A \rightarrow B$ and $m: B \rightarrow A$ is enough to imply $A \cong B$ ?
I tried to ...
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The union of all coreflective Cartesian closed subcategories of $\mathbf{Top}$
Very often, in topology, one restricts to a coreflective Cartesian closed subcategory of $\mathbf{Top}$ in order to freely use exponential laws for mapping spaces, which imply things like "the ...
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Simplicially enriched cartesian closed categories
In this question I asked whether for a complete and cocomplete cartesian closed category $V$, there can be a complete and cocomplete $V$-category $C$ (with powers and copowers) whose underlying ...
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Enriched cartesian closed categories
Let $V$ be a complete and cocomplete cartesian closed category. Feel free to assume more about $V$ if necessary; in my application $V$ is simplicial sets, so it is a presheaf topos and hence has all ...
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Is $\mathrm{Graph}$ cartesian-closed?
Let $\mathrm{Graph}$ be the category of simple, undirected graphs with graph homomorphisms. For any graphs $G, H$ we denote by $\text{Hom}(G, H)$ the set of graph homomorphisms $f:G\to H$. (Note that $...
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Is the category of hypergraphs cartesian-closed?
If $H_i = (V_i, E_i)$ for $i=1,2$ are hypergraphs then a map $f:V_1\to V_2$ is said to be a hypergraph homomorphism if $f(e_1)\in E_2$ for all $e_1\in E_1$. Hypergraphs together with hypergraph ...
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Weak colimits in locally cartesian closed categories
The general adjoint functor theorem implies that a complete locally small category has a weak colimit of a diagram if and only if it has a colimit of this diagram. It seems that this is also true for ...
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When is the derived category $D(A)$ locally cartesian closed?
Let $D(A)$ be the derived $(\infty,1)$-category of some abelian category $A$. For which $A$ is $D(A)$ locally cartesian closed?
Replace $D$ with $D^b$ or similar if appropriate.
I essentially want ...
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A locally presentable locally cartesian closed category that is not a quasitopos
This question asks for a locally presentable locally cartesian closed category that is not a topos. All the answers given (at least in the 1-categorical case) are quasitoposes. What is an example of ...
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Example of a locally presentable locally cartesian closed category which is not a topos?
The only way I know to get a locally cartesian closed category which is not a topos is to start with a topos and then throw out some objects so that the category is not sufficiently cocomplete to be a ...
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About cartesian closed categories of models of a cartesian theory
Let $T$ be a small category, and $\mathrm{Mod}(T)\subset\mathrm{Fun}(T,\textbf{Set})$ the category of cartesian (finite-limit preserving) copresheaves on $T$. If $T$ is a commutative algebraic theory, ...
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Is the category of convergence spaces cartesian-closed?
Convergence spaces are a generalization of topological spaces; we denote the category of convergence spaces with continuous maps with ${\bf Conv}$. Is ${\bf Conv}$ cartesian-closed?
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Substructural types, the lambda calculus, and CCCs
It's well known that the simply-typed lambda calculus corresponds to a cartesian closed category. How would substructural type systems be characterized in category theory?
For example, linear type ...
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Is there a topological space X homeomorphic to the space of continuous functions from X to [0, 1]?
In general, we might ask when we can find interesting spaces $X, Y$ such that $X$ is homeomorphic to $[X, Y]$. By the Lawvere fixed point theorem $Y$ must have the fixed point property. Happily, $Y = [...
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Is there a construction capturing indexed families of adjunctions?
I'm sorry in advance if this question does not belong on this site. I am curious as to what is "really" going on when you have a family of functors indexed by elements in a base category, all of which ...
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Internal characterizations of lifting properties?
This is basically a restatement of this question.
Two arrows $f,g$ are orthogonal, i.e satisfy $f\perp g$, iff the square below is a pullback
$$\require{AMScd} \begin{CD}
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What is the monoidal equivalent of a locally cartesian closed category?
If a closed monoidal category is the monoidal equivalent of a Cartesian closed category, is there an analogous equivalent for locally cartesian closed categories? Is there a standard terminology or ...
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Are lax functor categories into a cartesian closed 2-category cartesian closed?
Suppose that $C$ is a complete closed monoidal category and $I$ is any small category. Then the functor category $Fun(I,C)$ is again a closed monoidal category with the pointwise tensor product $F \...
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Cartesian closed category
Let $\bf{C}$ be a category with finite products.
(1) An object $X$ of $\bf{C}$ is called cartesian if the functor $(-)\times X$ has a right
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Product in the free CCC over a CCC
When you start with a CCC $C$, take the underlying graph of $C$ via the forgetful $U : Cat \to Graph$, and then construct the free CCC over $U(C)$ via $Free : Graph \to Cat$: what's the relationship ...
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When is the projective model structure cartesian? When is the internal hom invariant?
If M is a sufficiently nice model category and D is a small category then there are two natural model structures we can impose on the functor category $Fun(D,M)$ where the weak equivalences are the ...
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A (too?) simple notion of "closed multicategory"
Suppose I define a multicategory $M=(Ob(M),Hom_M)$ to be simply closed if
for every sequence $S=(b_1,\ldots,b_n;x)$ of $n+1$ objects in $M$, we provide an object $Exp(S)\in Ob(M)$, and
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Example of a non-closed cocomplete symmetric monoidal category
Background
By a cocomplete symmetric monoidal category $C$ I mean a symmetric monoidal category whose underlying category is cocomplete and such that $- \otimes X : C \to C$ is cocontinuous for all $X ...
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Seems like Reader monad composed with a strong monad produces a monad, am I right?
Take a Cartesian (or monoidal) closed category; define Reader monad for a given object $E$ as
$X \mapsto X^E$; and take a strong monad $M$ (strong means preserves product or tensor product).
Now the ...
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Exponentiable objects in a category, valued in a larger, containing category
Recall that when dealing with topological spaces one usually likes dealing with a subcategory of $Top$ which is convenient, one facet of which is that it is cartesian closed. However to get to a ...
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Do Categorical Quotients Preserve Covering Maps?
Before asking a question, please let me write down settings.
SETTINGS:
Let $C$ be a category with fiber products and $B$ be a closed subcategory of $C$ (i.e. $B$ contains any isomorphism of $C$, and ...
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