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On the unicity of formal category theories

Category Theory 2019-01-08 v1

Abstract

We prove an equivalence between cocomplete Yoneda structures and certain proarrow equipments on a 2-category K\mathcal K. 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 f:ABf :A \to B to an adjunction P!fPf\boldsymbol{P}_!f\dashv\boldsymbol{P}^*f. Each cocomplete Yoneda structure on K\mathcal K 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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