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In Girard's $\Pi^1_2$-logic, a dilator $D$ is a endofunctor which commutes with pull-back and direct limit on $\mathrm{ON}$, the category whose objects are ordinals and morphisms are strictly increasing functions. For dilator $D_0,D_1$, an embedding from $D_0$ to $D_1$ is a natural transformation from $D_0$ to $D_1$.

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Is a following statement true?

If dilators $D_0,D_1$ are bi-embedable, that is there is embeddings $T_0\colon D_0\Rightarrow D_1, T_1\colon D_1\Rightarrow D_0$, then $D_0=D_1$.

I think this statement is true because the fact embeddings of dilators is equal to injective homomorphism when dilators are considered as structures. However I can't check this fact because the paper is written in French….

Girard, Jean-Yves; Ressayre, Jean Pierre, Elements de logique $\Pi^1_n$, Recursion theory, Proc. AMS-ASL Summer Inst., Ithaca/N.Y. 1982, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 42, 389-445 (1985). ZBL0573.03029.

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No. For example consider the dilator $D$ that maps a well-order $A$ to the well-order consisting of denotations

  1. $(2n;x,y)$, where $y<_Ax$ are elements of $A$;
  2. $(2n+1;x)$, where $x\in A$.

The denotations are compared by lexicographical order. For a morphism $f \colon A\to B$ we as usual put $D(f)((m;x_1,\ldots,x_k))=(m;f(x_1),\ldots,f(x_k))$. Now consider the dilator $D'$ that omits from $D$ all the denotations of the form $(0;x,y)$. Clearly, $D$ and $D'$ are bi-embeddable, but not equal.

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