English

Distributive laws for relative monads

Category Theory 2023-04-19 v3

Abstract

We introduce the notion of a distributive law between a relative monad and a monad. We call this a relative distributive law and define it in any 2-category K\mathcal{K}. In order to do that, we introduce the 2-category of relative monads in a 2-category K\mathcal{K} with relative monad morphisms and relative monad transformations as 1- and 2-cells, respectively. We relate our definition to the 2-category of monads in K\mathcal{K} defined by Street. Thanks to this view we prove two Beck-type theorems regarding relative distributive laws. We also describe what does it mean to have Eilenberg-Moore and Kleisli objects in this context and give examples in the 2-category of locally small categories.

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@article{arxiv.2007.12982,
  title  = {Distributive laws for relative monads},
  author = {Gabriele Lobbia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12982},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

39 pages, some examples added, final journal version

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