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Monoidal Adjunctions - Linearity and Duality

Category Theory 2019-04-01 v2

Abstract

We explain two related constructions on the data of two monoidal symmetric closed categories A\mathscr{A} and E\mathscr{E} and monoidal functors F:EAF: \mathscr{E}\to \mathscr{A} and G:AEG: \mathscr{A}\to \mathscr{E}. In a first part, we recall and partly extend work of A. Kock: In case FF is left-adjoint to GG, and this adjunction is monoidal, we can equip the Eilenberg-Moore category ET\mathscr{E}^T for TT being the canonical monad associated to the adjunction, with the structure of symmetric monoidal closed category, provided E\mathscr{E} has equalizers and ET\mathscr{E}^T co-equalizers. In a second part, inspired by the Chu-construction, we build a category RG\mathscr{R}_{G}, which is symmetric monoidal closed as well, under the condition that E\mathscr{E} has pullbacks. Similarly we build a category LF\mathscr{L}^{F} which is symmetric monoidal closed under the condition that A\mathscr{A} has what we call FF-pushouts and FF-pullbacks. In case FGF \dashv G is a monoidal adjunction, we show that LF\mathscr{L}^{F} and RG\mathscr{R}_{G} are isomorphic as symmetric monoidal closed categories. We show also how ET\mathscr{E}^T is related to both.

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@article{arxiv.1903.02021,
  title  = {Monoidal Adjunctions - Linearity and Duality},
  author = {Thomas H. M. Krantz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.02021},
  year   = {2019}
}

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