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We study a Cauchy-Schwarz type inequality for categories with respect to a certain ‘inner product’ for objects. This turns out to be equivalent to showing a positivity of certain matrices called ‘Laplacians’ constructed from categories.
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Kurokawa et al. (2003) studied this question.
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