Bicategories of algebras for relative pseudomonads

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Main Authors: Arkor, Nathanael, Saville, Philip, Slattery, Andrew
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author Arkor, Nathanael
Saville, Philip
Slattery, Andrew
author_facet Arkor, Nathanael
Saville, Philip
Slattery, Andrew
contents We introduce pseudoalgebras for relative pseudomonads and develop their theory. For each relative pseudomonad $T$, we construct a free--forgetful relative pseudoadjunction that exhibits the bicategory of $T$-pseudoalgebras as terminal among resolutions of $T$. The Kleisli bicategory for $T$ thus embeds into the bicategory of pseudoalgebras as the sub-bicategory of free pseudoalgebras. We consequently obtain a coherence theorem that implies, for instance, that the bicategory of distributors is biequivalent to the 2-category of presheaf categories. In doing so, we extend several aspects of the theory of pseudomonads to relative pseudomonads, including doctrinal adjunction, transport of structure, and lax-idempotence. As an application of our general theory, we prove that, for each class of colimits $Φ$, there is a correspondence between monads relative to free $Φ$-cocompletions, and $Φ$-cocontinuous monads on free $Φ$-cocompletions.
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spellingShingle Bicategories of algebras for relative pseudomonads
Arkor, Nathanael
Saville, Philip
Slattery, Andrew
Category Theory
18C15, 18C20, 18D60, 18M50, 18N10, 18N15, 18N20
We introduce pseudoalgebras for relative pseudomonads and develop their theory. For each relative pseudomonad $T$, we construct a free--forgetful relative pseudoadjunction that exhibits the bicategory of $T$-pseudoalgebras as terminal among resolutions of $T$. The Kleisli bicategory for $T$ thus embeds into the bicategory of pseudoalgebras as the sub-bicategory of free pseudoalgebras. We consequently obtain a coherence theorem that implies, for instance, that the bicategory of distributors is biequivalent to the 2-category of presheaf categories. In doing so, we extend several aspects of the theory of pseudomonads to relative pseudomonads, including doctrinal adjunction, transport of structure, and lax-idempotence. As an application of our general theory, we prove that, for each class of colimits $Φ$, there is a correspondence between monads relative to free $Φ$-cocompletions, and $Φ$-cocontinuous monads on free $Φ$-cocompletions.
title Bicategories of algebras for relative pseudomonads
topic Category Theory
18C15, 18C20, 18D60, 18M50, 18N10, 18N15, 18N20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12510