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am starting differential string structure, but not much there yet
Added to T-duality a section with the discussion of the usual path-integral heuristics for why the two sigma-models on T-dual backgrounds yield equivalent quantum field theories.
I have added pointer to
to the entries 7-sphere, ADE classification, Freund-Rubin compactification.
This article proves the neat result that the finite subgroups of such that is smooth and spin and has at least four Killing spinors has an ADE classification. The s are the the “binary” versions of the symmetries of the Platonic solids.
For the purposes of negative thinking, it may be useful to recognise that every -category has a -morphism, which is the source and target of every object. (In the geometric picture, this comes as the -simplex of an augmented simplicial set.)
Jonathan Arnoult has pointed out on CT Zulip that this is misleading: it sounds like it implies that every -category is monoidal! And John Baez pointed out that the analogy to augmented simplicial sets fails because in an augmented simplicial set each 0-simplex has only one face, rather than a separate “source” and “target” that are both the same -simplex.
I suggest we just remove this paragraph and the query box following it, since I can’t think of a way to rephrase it that would be more helpful than unhelpful. But I’m open to other suggestions.
Stub. For the moment just for providing a place to record this reference:
This is a brief description of the construction that started appearing in category-theoretic accounts of deep learning and game theory. It appeared first in Backprop As Functor (https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10455) in a specialised form, but has slowly been generalised and became a cornerstone of approaches unifying deep learning and game theory (Towards Foundations of categorical Cybernetics, https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06332), (Categorical Foundations of Gradient-based Learning, https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01931).
Our group here in Glasgow is using this quite heavily, so since I couldn’t find any related constructions on the nLab I decided to add it. This is also my first submission. I’ve read the “HowTo” page, followed the instructions, and I hope everything looks okay.
There’s quite a few interesting properties of Para, and eventually I hope to add them (most notably, it’s an Para is an oplax colimit of a functor BM -> Cat, where B is the delooping of a monoidal category M).
A notable thing to mention is that I’ve added some animated GIF’s of this construction. Animating categorical concepts is something I’ve been using as a pedagogical tool quite a bit (more here https://www.brunogavranovic.com/posts/2021-03-03-Towards-Categorical-Foundations-Of-Neural-Networks.html) and it seems to be a useful tool getting the idea across with less friction. If it renders well (it seems to) and is okay with you, I might add more to the Optics section, and to the neural networks section (I’m hoping to get some time to add our results there).
Bruno Gavranović
added pointer to:
added working institute webpage link
as well as
created a “category: reference”-page The Stacks Project
I have only now had a closer look at this and am impressed by the scope this has. Currently a total of 2288 pages. It starts with all the basics, category theory, commutative algebra and works its way through all the details to arrive at algebraic stacks.
So besides my usual complaint (Why behave as if there are not sites besides the usual suspects on and either give a general account or call this The Algebraic Stacks Project ? ) I am enjoying seeing this. We should have lots of occasion to link to this. Too bad that this did not start out as a wiki.
Added this reference
I needed an entry to be able to point to which collects pointers to the various entries on “dualities” in string theory. So I created one: duality in string theory.
I have edited at Tychonoff theorem:
tidied up the Idea-section. (Previously there was a long paragraph on the spelling of the theorem before the content of the theorem was even mentioned)
moved the proofs into a subsection “Proofs”, and added a pointer to an elementary proof of the finitary version, here
Notice that there is an ancient query box in the entry, with discussion between Todd and Toby. It would be good to remove this box and turn whatever conclusion was reached into a proper part of the entry.
At then end of the entry there is a line:
More details to appear at Tychonoff theorem for locales
which however has not “appeared” yet.
But since the page is not called “Tychonoff theorem for topological spaces”, and since it already talks about locales a fair bit in the Idea section, I suggest to remove that line and to simply add all discussion of localic Tychonoff to this same entry.
Started lift.
weak factorization system has redirects from: lifting property, right lifting property, left lifting property, lifting problem, lifting problems.
Would it be better to have these redirect to lift?
a bare subsection with a list of references, to be !include
-ed at super Riemann surface and at moduli space of super Riemann surfaces, for ease of synchronization
added pointer to today’s
created quick stub for framed bicategory
but my machine's battery will die any second now...
I have added to string theory a new section Critical strings and quantum anomalies.
Really I was beginning to work on a new entry twisted spin^c structure (not done yet) and then I found that a summary discussion along the above lines had been missing.
for discussion at geometry of physics I needed to be able to point to principle of extremal action, so I created a little entry.
I added a reference on Gabriel filters on quantales.
Very strange: version one on show had a reference on Etendues (entered by T. Holder), but when I clicked edit there was none in the edit window, just in show window. I edited and one can not see it in any history, nowhere. So there was something in show cache from 2014 which is not recorded in any history edit.
I gave Fourier-Mukai transform a bit of an Idea-section. It overlaps substantially with the Definition section now, but I thought one needs to say the simple basic idea clearly in words first. Also added a few more pointers to literature.
I am giving Modern foundations for stable homotopy theory a category:reference entry.
First thing I did was to brush-up the list of references at symmetric smash product of spectra. Then I copied over the nicely to-the-point History-paragraph to a new section stable homotopy theory – history.
have now spelled out at Tor in simple terms how is a torsion group, so far for the case that is finite.
added to equalizer statement and proof that a category has equalizers if it has pullbcks and products
I have added
and added publication details to
and grouped together more discernibly the references on operator-algebraic entropy
added at core the remark that the core is right adjoint to the forgetful functor .
The Idea-section at quasi-Hopf algebra had been confused and wrong. I have removed it and written a new one.
Adding reference
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