Involutive Category Theory

Donald Yau is Professor of Mathematics at The Ohio State University at Newark. He obtained his PhD at MIT and held a post-doctoral position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on algebraic topology. He has authored over forty articles and eight books, including the Springer titles Operads of Wiring Diagrams and Infinity Properads and Infinity Wheeled Properads.

• Category Theory.- Involutive Categories.- Coherence of Involutive Categories.- Involutive Monoidal Categories.- Coherence of Involutive Monoidal Categories.- Coherence of Involutive Symmetric Monoidal Categories.- Categorical Gelfand-Naimark-Segal Construction.- Involutive Operads.

“This is the first book whose central topic is involutive categories. It is written at the first year graduate level and is pretty much self-contained. It contains exercises and notes at the end of every chapter. It may be a useful reference for mathematicians and physicists working with involutive objects.” (Bojana Femic, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2022)