Temporalize structured decompositions for cumulative narratives

Determine whether dualizing the assumptions used to temporalize spined structured-decomposition categories yields a spined sd-category of cumulative narratives of the form \((\mathsf{Cu},G,\check{\Omega})\), and derive the corresponding proof or identify the necessary modifications.

Background

The paper constructs temporalized spined sd-categories for persistent narratives under hypotheses involving pullbacks, cocompleteness, sheafification, and pushouts along monomorphisms. It then defines an analogous filtration Ωˇ\check{\Omega} for cumulative narratives using a pullback construction over a sub-time-category.

Whether the dual hypotheses suffice to reproduce the spined sd-category structure on cumulative narratives is left unresolved, as is the manner in which the proof must be adapted from the persistent setting.

References

If we dualize the assumptions of Theorem~\ref{thm:temporalization-of-spined-sd-category}, do we again obtain a spined sd-category of the form $(\Cu,G,\check{\Omega})$? How does the proof change?

— Time-Varying Data as Sheaves: an Invitation to Narratives  (2609.09056 - Leal et al., 8 Sep 2026) in Conclusion and future directions, paragraph “Structured decompositions of cumulative narratives”

It would be interesting to investigate the following questions, assuming the setting of Theorem~\ref{thm:temporalized-sd-category} together with the dual assumptions: Are the above adjoint functors sd-functors in the sense of Definition 2.7.1?

— Time-Varying Data as Sheaves: an Invitation to Narratives  (2609.09056 - Leal et al., 8 Sep 2026) in Conclusion and future directions, paragraph “Structured decompositions of cumulative narratives” and displayed list of questions