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Clément Alleaume

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arXiv2017

Linear polygraphs applied to categorification

We introduce two applications of polygraphs to categorification problems. We compute first, from a coherent presentation of an $n$-category, a coherent presentation of its Karoubi envelope. For this, we extend the construction of Karoubi envelope to $n$-polygraphs and linear $(n,n-1)$-polygraphs. The second problem treated in this paper is the construction of Grothendieck decategorifications for $(n,n-1)$-polygraphs. This construction yields a rewriting system presenting for example algebras categorified by a linear monoidal category. We finally link quasi-convergence of such rewriting systems to the uniqueness of direct sum decompositions for linear $(n-1,n-1)$-categories.

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arXiv2017

Coherence of string rewriting systems by decreasingness

Squier introduced a homotopical method in order to describe all the relations amongst rewriting reductions of a confluent and terminating string rewriting system. From a string rewriting system he constructed a $2$-dimensional combinatorial complex whose $2$-cells are generated by relations induced by the rewriting rules. When the rewriting system is confluent and terminating, the homotopy of this complex can be characterized in term of confluence diagrams induced by the critical branchings of the rewriting system. Such a construction is now used to solve coherence problems for monoids using string rewriting systems. In this article, we show how to weaken the termination hypothesis in the description of all the relations amongst rewriting reductions. Our construction uses the decreasingness method introduced by van Oostrom. We introduce the notion of decreasing two-dimensional polygraph and we give sufficient conditions for a decreasing polygraph to be extended in a coherent way. In particular, we show how a confluent and quasi-terminating polygraph can be extended into a coherent presentation.

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arXiv2016

Rewriting in higher dimensional linear categories and application to the affine oriented Brauer category

In this paper, we introduce a rewriting theory of linear monoidal categories. Those categories are a particular case of what we will define as linear (n, p)-categories. We will also define linear (n, p)-polygraphs, a linear adapation of n-polygraphs, to present linear (n -- 1, p)-categories. We focus then on linear (3, 2)-polygraphs to give presentations of linear monoidal categories. We finally give an application of this theory in linear (3, 2)-polygraphs to prove a basis theorem on the category AOB with a new method using a rewriting property defined by van Ostroom: decreasingness.

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