English

Pseudocommutativity and Lax Idempotency for Relative Pseudomonads

Category Theory 2023-12-01 v4

Abstract

We extend the classical work of Kock on strong and commutative monads, as well as the work of Hyland and Power for 2-monads, in order to define strong and pseudocommutative relative pseudomonads. In order to achieve this, we work in the more general setting of 2-multicategories rather than monoidal 2-categories. We prove analogous implications to the classical work: that a strong relative pseudomonad is a pseudo-multifunctor, and that a pseudocommutative relative pseudomonad is a multicategorical pseudomonad. Furthermore, we extend the work of L\'opez Franco with a proof that a lax-idempotent strong relative pseudomonad is pseudocommutative. We apply the results of this paper to the example of the presheaf relative pseudomonad.

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@article{arxiv.2304.14788,
  title  = {Pseudocommutativity and Lax Idempotency for Relative Pseudomonads},
  author = {Andrew Slattery},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14788},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

28 pages, to be published in Theories and Applications of Categories

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