functoriality

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noun

The quality of being functorial.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounfunctoriality (countable and uncountable, plural functorialities)

plural functorialities

  1. countableuncountableThe quality of being functorial.

    Our techniques depend on a careful investigation of the functoriality of traces in symmetric monoidal (infinity,n)-categories, which is of independent interest..

    2015, Marc Hoyois, Sarah Scherotzke, Nicolò Sibilla, “Higher traces, noncommutative motives, and the categorified Chern character”, in arXiv

Origin

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