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In this work, we establish certain enrichments of dual algebraic structures in the setting of monoidal double categories. In more detail, we obtain a tensored and cotensored enrichment of monads in comonads, as well as a tensored and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Vasileios Aravantinos-Sotiropoulos , Christina Vasilakopoulou

We show that for certain class of oligomorphic groups there is a version of multiplication of double cosets in the Ismagilov--Olshanski sense. Categories of (reduced) double cosets are realized as certain categories of partial bijections.…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Yury A. Neretin

We categorify cocompleteness results of monad theory, in the context of pseudomonads. We first prove a general result establishing that, in any 2-category, weighted bicolimits can be constructed from oplax bicolimits and bicoequalizers of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Axel Osmond

Notions of generalized multicategory have been defined in numerous contexts throughout the literature, and include such diverse examples as symmetric multicategories, globular operads, Lawvere theories, and topological spaces. In each case,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-01 G. S. H. Cruttwell , Michael A. Shulman

We present an unbiased theory of symmetric multicategories, where sequences are replaced by families. To be effective, this approach requires an explicit consideration of indexing and reindexing of objects and arrows, handled by the double…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Claudio Pisani

Suppose that we have a bicomplete closed symmetric monoidal quasi-abelian category $\mathcal{E}$ with enough flat projectives, such as the category of complete bornological spaces $\textbf{CBorn}_k$ or the category of inductive limits of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Rhiannon Savage

Many structured categories of interest are most naturally described as algebras for a relative monad, but turn out nonetheless to be algebras for an ordinary monad. We show that, under suitable hypotheses, the left oplax Kan extension of a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Umberto Tarantino , Joshua Wrigley

The skew monoidal categories of Szlach\'anyi are a weakening of monoidal categories where the three structural laws of left and right unitality and associativity are not required to be isomorphisms but merely transformations in a particular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Tarmo Uustalu , Niccolò Veltri , Noam Zeilberger

Fuhrmann introduced Abstract Kleisli structures to model call-by-value programming languages with side effects, and showed that they correspond to monads satisfying a certain equalising condition on the unit. We first extend this theory to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Adrian Miranda

This paper introduces an inherently strict presentation of categories with products, coproducts, or symmetric monoidal products that is inspired by file systems and directories. Rather than using nested binary tuples to combine objects or…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Owen Lynch , Markus Lohmayer

This work studies the proof theory of left (right) skew monoidal closed categories and skew monoidal bi-closed categories from the perspective of non-associative Lambek calculus. Skew monoidal closed categories represent a relaxed version…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Cheng-Syuan Wan

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

Kornel Szlach\'anyi recently used the term skew-monoidal category for a particular laxified version of monoidal category. He showed that bialgebroids $H$ with base ring $R$ could be characterized in terms of skew-monoidal structures on the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-06 Stephen Lack , Ross Street

We show that some recent constructions in the literature, named `weak' generalizations, can be systematically treated by passing from 2-categories to categories enriched in the Cartesian monoidal category of Cauchy complete categories.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Gabriella Böhm , Stephen Lack , Ross Street

Motivated by recent work on weak distributive laws and their applications to coalgebraic semantics, we investigate the algebraic nature of semialgebras for a monad. These are algebras for the underlying functor of the monad subject to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Daniela Petrişan , Ralph Sarkis

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

Certain aspects of Street's formal theory of monads in 2-categories are extended to multimonoidal monads in symmetric strict monoidal 2-categories. Namely, any symmetric strict monoidal 2-category $\mathcal M$ admits a symmetric strict…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Gabriella Böhm

We describe a perfect correspondence between skew monoidal categories and certain generalised multicategories, called skew multicategories, that arise in nature.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-08 John Bourke , Stephen Lack

The theory of commutative monads on cartesian closed categories provides a framework where aspects of the theory of distributions and other extensive quantities can be formulated and some results proved. We make explicit a link between our…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Anders Kock

Noticing the similarity between the monotone weak distributive laws combining two layers of nondeterminism in sets and in compact Hausdorff spaces, we study whether the latter law can be obtained automatically as a weak lifting of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Quentin Aristote