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We study discrete opfibration classifiers in enhanced 2-categories and show how, under suitable hypotheses, such classifiers can be endowed with the structure of a (lax or pseudo-)T-algebra and classify strict discrete opfibrations in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Matteo Capucci , David Jaz Myers

We study the canonical weak distributive law $\delta$ of the powerset monad over the semimodule monad for a certain class of semirings containing, in particular, positive semifields. For this subclass we characterise $\delta$ as a convex…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Filippo Bonchi , Alessio Santamaria

We consider the canonical pseudodistributive law between various free limit completion pseudomonads and the free coproduct completion pseudomonad. When the class of limits includes pullbacks, we show that this consideration leads to notions…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Fernando Lucatelli Nunes , Rui Prezado , Matthijs Vákár

We contribute to the formal theory of pseudomonads, i.e. the analogue for pseudomonads of the formal theory of monads. In particular, we solve a problem posed by Steve Lack by proving that, for every Gray-category K, there is a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Nicola Gambino , Gabriele Lobbia

Given a 2-category $\twocat{K}$ admitting a calculus of bimodules, and a 2-monad T on it compatible with such calculus, we construct a 2-category $\twocat{L}$ with a 2-monad S on it such that: (1)S has the adjoint-pseudo-algebra property.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claudio Hermida

We show that there is weak distributive law of the Smyth hyperspace monad $\mathcal Q_{\mathsf V}$ (resp., the Hoare hyperspace monad $\mathcal H_{\mathsf V}$, resp. the monad $\mathcal P\ell^{\mathrm q}_{\mathsf V}$ of quasi-lenses, resp.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Jean Goubault-Larrecq

Generalized multicategories, also called $T$-monoids, are well known class of mathematical structures, which include diverse set of examples. In this paper we construct a generalization of the adjunction between strict monoidal categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Dimitri Chikhladze

We modularly build increasingly larger fragments of the ZX-calculus by modularly adding new generators and relations, at each point, giving some concrete semantics in terms of some category of spans. This is performed using Lack's technique…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Cole Comfort

For a small involutive quantaloid $\mathcal{Q}$, it is shown that the category of separated complete $\mathcal{Q}$-categories and left adjoint $\mathcal{Q}$-functors is strictly monadic over the category of symmetric…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Lili Shen , Xiaojuan Zhao

Monads are well known to be equivalent to lax functors out of the terminal category. Morita contexts are here shown to be lax functors out of the chaotic category with two objects. This allows various aspects in the theory of Morita…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Stephen Lack

We study the 2-category of elements from an abstract point of view. We generalize to dimension 2 the well-known result that the category of elements can be captured by a comma object that also exhibits a pointwise left Kan extension. For…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Luca Mesiti

This is a condensed overview of the formal theory of monads in a 2-category. We also define two double categories of monads in a 2-category, extending Lack and Street's 2-categories of monads.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Aaron David Fairbanks

A locally small category E is totally distributive (as defined by Rosebrugh-Wood) if there exists a string of adjoint functors t -| c -| y, where y : E --> E^ is the Yoneda embedding. Saying that E is lex totally distributive if, moreover,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Rory B. B. Lucyshyn-Wright

We introduce basic notions and results about relation liftings on categories enriched in a commutative quantale. We derive two necessary and sufficient conditions for a 2-functor T to admit a functorial relation lifting: one is the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Marta Bilkova , Alexander Kurz , Daniela Petrisan , Jiri Velebil

We present a categorical theory of monads and distributive laws in substructural contexts. In the study of distributive laws, the roles of (the absence of) structural rules for variable contexts have been recognized; our theory formalizes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Soichiro Fujii , Yun Chen Tsai , Yoàv Montacute , Ichiro Hasuo

For a quantale ${\sf{V}}$, the category $\sf V$-${\bf Top}$ of ${\sf{V}}$-valued topological spaces may be introduced as a full subcategory of those ${\sf{V}}$-valued closure spaces whose closure operation preserves finite joins. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Hongliang Lai , Walter Tholen

Given a monad $T$ on $\mathscr{A}$ and a functor $G \colon \mathscr{A} \to \mathscr{B}$, one can construct a monad $G_\#T$ on $\mathscr{B}$ subject to the existence of a certain Kan extension; this is the pushforward of $T$ along $G$. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Adrián Doña Mateo

Weak bimonoids in duoidal categories are introduced. They provide a common generalization of bimonoids in duoidal categories and of weak bimonoids in braided monoidal categories. Under the assumption that idempotent morphisms in the base…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-06-21 Yuanyuan Chen , Gabriella Böhm

After two papers on weak cubical categories and {\it collarable} cospans, respectively, we put things together and construct a {\it weak} cubical category of cubical {\it collared} cospans of topological spaces. We also build a second…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Marco Grandis

This dissertation is devoted to a study of adjunctions concerning categories enriched over a quantaloid Q (or Q-categories for short), with the following types of adjunctions involved: (1) adjoint functors between Q-categories; (2) adjoint…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Lili Shen