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Bicategories of algebras for relative pseudomonads

Category Theory 2025-01-23 v1

Abstract

We introduce pseudoalgebras for relative pseudomonads and develop their theory. For each relative pseudomonad TT, we construct a free--forgetful relative pseudoadjunction that exhibits the bicategory of TT-pseudoalgebras as terminal among resolutions of TT. The Kleisli bicategory for TT 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\Phi, there is a correspondence between monads relative to free Φ\Phi-cocompletions, and Φ\Phi-cocontinuous monads on free Φ\Phi-cocompletions.

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@article{arxiv.2501.12510,
  title  = {Bicategories of algebras for relative pseudomonads},
  author = {Nathanael Arkor and Philip Saville and Andrew Slattery},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.12510},
  year   = {2025}
}

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56 pages