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Pseudoalgebras and non-canonical isomorphisms

Category Theory 2019-02-05 v4

Abstract

Given a pseudomonad T\mathcal{T} , we prove that a lax T\mathcal{T} -morphism between pseudoalgebras is a T\mathcal{T} -pseudomorphism if and only if there is a suitable (possibly non-canonical) invertible T\mathcal{T} -transformation. This result encompasses several results on \textit{non-canonical isomorphisms}, including Lack's result on normal monoidal functors between braided monoidal categories, since it is applicable in any 22-category of pseudoalgebras, such as the 22-categories of monoidal categories, cocomplete categories, pseudofunctors and so on.

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@article{arxiv.1711.02051,
  title  = {Pseudoalgebras and non-canonical isomorphisms},
  author = {Fernando Lucatelli Nunes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02051},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Added coherence axioms, Corrected typos, 10 pages