English

Pre-torsors and Galois comodules over mixed distributive laws

Rings and Algebras 2012-01-27 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We study comodule functors for comonads arising from mixed distributive laws. Their Galois property is reformulated in terms of a (so-called) regular arrow in Street's bicategory of comonads. Between categories possessing equalizers, we introduce the notion of a regular adjunction. An equivalence is proven between the category of pre-torsors over two regular adjunctions (NA,RA)(N_A,R_A) and (NB,RB)(N_B,R_B) on one hand, and the category of regular comonad arrows (RA,ξ)(R_A,\xi) from some equalizer preserving comonad C{\mathbb C} to NBRBN_BR_B on the other. This generalizes a known relationship between pre-torsors over equal commutative rings and Galois objects of coalgebras.Developing a bi-Galois theory of comonads, we show that a pre-torsor over regular adjunctions determines also a second (equalizer preserving) comonad D{\mathbb D} and a co-regular comonad arrow from D{\mathbb D} to NARAN_A R_A, such that the comodule categories of C{\mathbb C} and D{\mathbb D} are equivalent.

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@article{arxiv.0806.1212,
  title  = {Pre-torsors and Galois comodules over mixed distributive laws},
  author = {Gabriella Böhm and Claudia Menini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1212},
  year   = {2012}
}

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