categorification

noun

A procedure that defines theorems in terms of category theory by mapping concepts from set theory to category theory.

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nouncategorification (countable and uncountable, plural categorifications)

plural categorifications

  1. countableuncountablecategory theoryA procedure that defines theorems in terms of category theory by mapping concepts from set theory to category theory.

    2009, Volodymyr Mazorchuk, Lectures on sl₂( C )-Modules, Imperial College Press, page 221, Show that Φ⊕Φ is also a (naïve) homomorphism of naïve categorifications.

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    2008, E. Krenkel, Ramifications of the Geometric Langlands Program, Michael Cowling, Edward Frenkel, Masaki Kashiwara, Alain Valette, David A. Vogan, Jr., Nolan R. Wallach (editors), Representation Theory and Complex Analysis: Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1931, page 83, In Section 3.4 we have already discussed the question of categorification of the algebra of functions on a homogeneous space like G(F)/K.

    Khovanov's categorification of the Jones polynomial by Khovanov homology is the subject of Section 11.6.

    2010, Kishore Marathe, Topics in Physical Mathematics, Springer, page 351

    2011, Robert Wisbauer, Categorical aspects of Hopf algebras, Matilde Marcolli, Deepak Parashar (editors), Quantum Groups and Noncommutative Spaces: Perspectives on Quantum Geometry, Springer Science+Business (Vieweg+Teubner), page 146, Since Lawvere's categorification of general algebra, algebras and coalgebras are used as basic notions in universal algebra, logic, and theoretical computer science, for example (e.g. [AdPo], [Gu], [TuPl]).

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