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Main Authors: Emmenegger, Jacopo, Mesiti, Luca, Rosolini, Giuseppe, Streicher, Thomas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01474
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author Emmenegger, Jacopo
Mesiti, Luca
Rosolini, Giuseppe
Streicher, Thomas
author_facet Emmenegger, Jacopo
Mesiti, Luca
Rosolini, Giuseppe
Streicher, Thomas
contents We prove that cloven Grothendieck fibrations over a fixed base $\ct{B}$ are the pseudo-coalgebras for a lax idempotent 2-comonad on $\ct{Cat}/\ct{B}$. We show this via an original observation that the known colax idempotent 2-monad for fibrations over a fixed base has a right 2-adjoint. As an important consequence, we obtain an original cofree construction of a fibration on a functor. We also give a new, conceptual proof of the fact that the forgetful 2-functor from split fibrations to cloven fibrations over a fixed base has both a left 2-adjoint and a right 2-adjoint, in terms of coherence phenomena of strictification of pseudo-(co)algebras. The 2-monad for fibrations yields the left splitting and the 2-comonad yields the right splitting. Moreover, we show that the constructions induced by these coherence theorems recover Giraud's explicit constructions of the left and the right splittings.
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spellingShingle A comonad for Grothendieck fibrations
Emmenegger, Jacopo
Mesiti, Luca
Rosolini, Giuseppe
Streicher, Thomas
Category Theory
18N45, 03G30, 18N10
We prove that cloven Grothendieck fibrations over a fixed base $\ct{B}$ are the pseudo-coalgebras for a lax idempotent 2-comonad on $\ct{Cat}/\ct{B}$. We show this via an original observation that the known colax idempotent 2-monad for fibrations over a fixed base has a right 2-adjoint. As an important consequence, we obtain an original cofree construction of a fibration on a functor. We also give a new, conceptual proof of the fact that the forgetful 2-functor from split fibrations to cloven fibrations over a fixed base has both a left 2-adjoint and a right 2-adjoint, in terms of coherence phenomena of strictification of pseudo-(co)algebras. The 2-monad for fibrations yields the left splitting and the 2-comonad yields the right splitting. Moreover, we show that the constructions induced by these coherence theorems recover Giraud's explicit constructions of the left and the right splittings.
title A comonad for Grothendieck fibrations
topic Category Theory
18N45, 03G30, 18N10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01474