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Monadic functors forgetful of (dis)inhibited actions

Category Theory 2025-11-10 v2 General Topology

Abstract

We prove a number of results of the following common flavor: for a category C\mathcal{C} of topological or uniform spaces with all manner of other properties of common interest (separation / completeness / compactness axioms), a group (or monoid) G\mathbb{G} equipped with various types of topological structure (topologies, uniformities) and the corresponding category CG\mathcal{C}^{\mathbb{G}} of appropriately compatible G\mathbb{G}-flows in C\mathcal{C}, the forgetful functor CGC\mathcal{C}^{\mathbb{G}}\to \mathcal{C} is monadic. In all cases of interest the domain category CG\mathcal{C}^{\mathbb{G}} is also cocomplete, so that results on adjunction lifts along monadic functors apply to provide equivariant completion and/or compactification functors. This recovers, unifies and generalizes a number of such results in the literature due to de Vries, Mart'yanov and others on existence of equivariant compactifications / completions and cocompleteness of flow categories.

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@article{arxiv.2404.13169,
  title  = {Monadic functors forgetful of (dis)inhibited actions},
  author = {Alexandru Chirvasitu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13169},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2 matches published version, with typo fixes; 16 pages + references