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Cocompleteness of enriched categories of algebras

A useful result due to Linton is that for a cocomplete category $C$ and monad $T$ on $C$, if the category of algebras $C^T$ admits reflexive coequalisers, then it is cocomplete (see here for a sketch ...
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Algebraically-free monadicity theorem

The monadicity theorem characterises when a functor $u : \mathbf B \to \mathbf E$ is the forgetful functor from the category of algebras for some monad on $\mathbf E$ (up to an equivalence over $\...
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Examples of (co)lax idempotent pseudocomonads on Cat

A lax idempotent pseudomonad, also called a KZ doctrine or KZ monad, is a pseudomonad $(T, \mu, \eta)$ with the property that $T \eta \dashv \mu \dashv \eta T$. Lax idempotent pseudomonads were ...
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Relation between two limit presentations of Eilenberg--Moore objects

Let $\mathbb{T}=({\cal T}\colon C\to C,\mu,\eta)$ be a monad (in the $2$-category $\mathsf{Cat}$), which we view as a $2$-functor $\mathbb{T}\colon\mathsf{B}\Delta_{\mathrm{a}}\to\mathsf{Cat}$ (where $...
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2-monads for categories with a class of (co)limits

This question concerns the strictness of (co)completions, at various levels of generality. In Blackwell–Kelly–Power's Two-dimensional monad theory, the authors state For instance, the 2-category $\...
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Algebras for products or limits of monads

If a category $C$ has limits of a certain type, then the category of monads on $C$ has the same type of limits, and these limits are computed "levelwise" (i.e. are preserved by the forgetful ...
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Conceptual reason that monadic functors create limits?

Let $U: Alg_T \to C$ be the forgetful functor from the category of algebras of $T: C \to C$ ($T$ could be a monad; I'm happy to think about the simpler case where $T$ is just an endofunctor or pointed ...
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Do "factoradic" lists form a finitary monad?

I'm trying to understand better what it means for a monad to be finitary. I know that Lawvere theories correspond to finitary monads, but I don't really understand the definition in terms of filtered ...
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Intuition for density comonad in relation to lifting problems

In Emily Riehl's Categorical Homotopy Theory, there is a section on Garner's Small Object Argument which I'm trying and failing to understand. Originally I followed most of Garner's paper, using the ...
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When do reflexive coequalizers preserve weak equivalences?

In my work I've run into the following situation. In a model category, I have two reflexive coequalizers $A_i \stackrel{\to}{\to} B_i \to C_i$ and a map of diagrams which is levelwise a weak ...
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The crude monadicity theorem

In order to test the monadicity of a functor, there is a precise monadicity theorem (PM) as well as a crude monadicity theorem (CM), see the nlab. In CM, the forgetful functor should create reflexive ...
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