On the unicity of formal category theories
Abstract
We prove an equivalence between cocomplete Yoneda structures and certain proarrow equipments on a 2-category . In order to do this, we recognize the presheaf construction of a cocomplete Yoneda structure as a relative, lax idempotent monad sending each admissible 1-cell to an adjunction . Each cocomplete Yoneda structure on arises in this way from a relative lax idempotent monad "with enough adjoint 1-cells", whose domain generates the ideal of admissibles, and the Kleisli category of such a monad equips its domain with proarrows. We call these structures "yosegi". Quite often, the presheaf construction associated to a yosegi generates an ambidextrous Yoneda structure; in such a setting there exists a fully formal version of Isbell duality.
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@article{arxiv.1901.01594,
title = {On the unicity of formal category theories},
author = {Ivan Di Liberti and Fosco Loregian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.01594},
year = {2019}
}
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38 pages