What is the universal property of the 2-category of monads?

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Main Authors: Lack, Stephen, Miranda, Adrian
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author Lack, Stephen
Miranda, Adrian
author_facet Lack, Stephen
Miranda, Adrian
contents For a 2-category $\mathcal{K}$, we consider Street's 2-category Mnd($\mathcal{K}$) of monads in $\mathcal{K}$, along with Lack and Street's 2-category EM($\mathcal{K}$) and the identity-on-objects-and-1-cells 2-functor Mnd($\mathcal{K}$) $\to$ EM($\mathcal{K}$) between them. We show that this 2-functor can be obtained as a "free completion" of the 2-functor $1\colon \mathcal{K} \to \mathcal{K}$. We do this by regarding 2-functors which act as the identity on both objects and 1-cells as categories enriched a cartesian closed category $\mathbf{BO}$ whose objects are identity-on-objects functors. We also develop some of the theory of $\mathbf{BO}$-enriched categories.
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spellingShingle What is the universal property of the 2-category of monads?
Lack, Stephen
Miranda, Adrian
Category Theory
18C15, 18C20, 18D20, 18N10, 18A35
For a 2-category $\mathcal{K}$, we consider Street's 2-category Mnd($\mathcal{K}$) of monads in $\mathcal{K}$, along with Lack and Street's 2-category EM($\mathcal{K}$) and the identity-on-objects-and-1-cells 2-functor Mnd($\mathcal{K}$) $\to$ EM($\mathcal{K}$) between them. We show that this 2-functor can be obtained as a "free completion" of the 2-functor $1\colon \mathcal{K} \to \mathcal{K}$. We do this by regarding 2-functors which act as the identity on both objects and 1-cells as categories enriched a cartesian closed category $\mathbf{BO}$ whose objects are identity-on-objects functors. We also develop some of the theory of $\mathbf{BO}$-enriched categories.
title What is the universal property of the 2-category of monads?
topic Category Theory
18C15, 18C20, 18D20, 18N10, 18A35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02210