Pre-torsors and Galois comodules over mixed distributive laws
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 and on one hand, and the category of regular comonad arrows from some equalizer preserving comonad to 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 and a co-regular comonad arrow from to , such that the comodule categories of and are equivalent.
Cite
@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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34 pages LaTeX file. v2: a few typos corrected