Kan injectivity in order-enriched categories
Logic in Computer Science
2019-02-20 v1 Category Theory
Abstract
Continuous lattices were characterised by Martin Escardo as precisely the objects that are Kan-injective w.r.t. a certain class of morphisms. We study Kan-injectivity in general categories enriched in posets. For every class H of morphisms we study the subcategory of all objects Kan-injective w.r.t. H and all morphisms preserving Kan-extensions. For categories such as Top_0 and Pos we prove that whenever H is a set of morphisms, the above subcategory is monadic, and the monad it creates is a Kock-Zoeberlein monad. However, this does not generalise to proper classes: we present a class of continuous mappings in Top_0 for which Kan-injectivity does not yield a monadic category.
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@article{arxiv.1311.1721,
title = {Kan injectivity in order-enriched categories},
author = {Jiri Adamek and Lurdes Sousa and Jiri Velebil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1721},
year = {2019}
}
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23 pages