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Is there an explicit construction of a free coalgebra?

I am interested in the differences between algebras and coalgebras. Naively, it does not seem as though there is much difference: after all, all you have done is to reverse the arrows in the ...
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Lurie's approach to the bar-cobar adjunction

I've been trying to read Jacob Lurie's approach to the bar-cobar constructions (Higher algebra §5.2 in the 2014-09 version) but I don't recognize what I know about these constructions. I wonder if ...
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Cofree Lie Coalgebra

I have problems finding anything about the cofree Lie coalgebra functor $\mathcal{L}ie^c$ out there. Basically all I found was that it appears in Harrison cohomology and that, given a $\mathbb{Z}$-...
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When are topoi of coalgebras atomic?

A geometric morphism is atomic if its inverse image is logical. Now consider a Grothendieck topos $\varepsilon$ and its terminal geometric morphism $\Gamma : \varepsilon \rightarrow Set$, topos is ...
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