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18Bxx Special categories

This subtopic studies special categories, focusing on classes of categories with additional axioms or structure that support refined constructions.

Specific topics

18B05 Categories of sets, characterizations

Overview

18B05 studies categories of sets and relations in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Categories of sets and relations (Wikipedia)

Useful Links

Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for categories of sets and relations
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B10 Categories of relations, spans, and cospans

Overview

18B10 studies topological categories and concrete categories in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Topological categories and concrete categories (Wikipedia)

Useful Links

Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for topological categories and concrete categories
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B15 Embedding theorems

Overview

18B15 studies categories of algebraic structures in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Categories of algebraic structures (Wikipedia)

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Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for categories of algebraic structures
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B20 Categories of machines, automata

Overview

18B20 studies enriched and internal categories in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Enriched and internal categories (Wikipedia)

Useful Links

Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for enriched and internal categories
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B25 Topoi

Overview

18B25 studies exact and regular categories in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Exact and regular categories (Wikipedia)

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Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for exact and regular categories
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B30 Categories of topological spaces

Overview

18B30 studies cartesian closed and locally cartesian closed categories in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Cartesian closed and locally cartesian closed categories (Wikipedia)

Useful Links

Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for cartesian closed and locally cartesian closed categories
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B35 Preorders, orders, domains and lattices as categories

Overview

18B35 studies monoidal and braided categories in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Monoidal and braided categories (Wikipedia)

Useful Links

Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for monoidal and braided categories
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B40 Groupoids, semigroupoids, semigroups

Overview

18B40 studies triangulated and derived categories as special categories in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Triangulated and derived categories as special categories (Wikipedia)

Useful Links

Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for triangulated and derived categories as special categories
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B45 Graph categories

Overview

18B45 studies categories of sheaves and toposes in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Categories of sheaves and toposes (Wikipedia)

Useful Links

Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for categories of sheaves and toposes
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B50 Categories of modules

Overview

18B50 studies special categories arising in geometry and logic in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

Special categories arising in geometry and logic (Wikipedia)

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Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for special categories arising in geometry and logic
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks

18B99 None of the above

Overview

18B99 studies none of the above in special categories. It focuses on distinguished classes of categories singled out by extra structure, axioms, or foundational role.

Related Wikipedia Page

None of the above (Wikipedia)

Useful Links

Key Ideas

  • Canonical formulations and representative examples for none of the above
  • How structural, local, and computational viewpoints interact in the subject
  • Standard theorem patterns and invariants used in current research practice

Typical Uses

Used to organize examples and abstraction principles in topology, algebra, and logic.

Applications

  • Special categorical structures
  • Topos and enriched-category methods
  • Exactness and internal logic

References

Recommended Textbooks