Weak Distributive Laws between Monads of Continuous Valuations and of Non-Deterministic Choice
Abstract
We show that there is weak distributive law of the Smyth hyperspace monad (resp., the Hoare hyperspace monad , resp. the monad of quasi-lenses, resp. the monad of lenses) over the continuous valuation monad , as well as over the subprobability valuation monad and the probability valuation monad , on the whole category of topological spaces (resp., on certain full subcategories such as the category of locally compact spaces or of stably compact spaces). We show that the resulting weak composite monad is the author's monad of superlinear previsions (resp., sublinear previsions, resp. forks), possibly subnormalized or normalized depending on whether we consider or instead of . As a special case, we obtain a weak distributive law of the monad over the monad of (sub)probability Radon measures on the category of stably compact spaces, which specializes further to a weak distributive laws of the Vietoris monad over . The associated weak composite monad is the monad of (sub)normalized forks.
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@article{arxiv.2408.15977,
title = {Weak Distributive Laws between Monads of Continuous Valuations and of Non-Deterministic Choice},
author = {Jean Goubault-Larrecq},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15977},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
79 pages; in v2, credit now given to G. B\"ohm for weak distributive laws; in the Appendix, new example of an inner regular, non-locally finite measure with finite values on the compact sets; in v3, fixed Remarks 4.3, 7.4, 10.3, 10.5 and 11.7, which were faulty; mentioned Quentin Aristote's work, if very briefly; in v4, included modifications from errata cited as [21]