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What are the algebras for the ultrafilter monad on topological spaces?
Motivation: Let $(X,\tau)$ be a topological space. Then the set $\beta X$ of ultrafilters on $X$ admits a natural topology (cf. Example 5.14 in Adámek and Sousa - D-ultrafilters and their monads), ...
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Is there a monad on Set whose algebras are Tychonoff spaces?
Compact Hausdorff spaces are algebras of the ultrafilter monad on Set.
Is the category of Tychonoff spaces also monadic over Set?
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How algebraic can the dual of a topological category be?
(I'm going to try to use definitions from Abstract and Concrete Categories: The Joy of Cats by Adámek, Herrlich, and Strecker, since both of the adjectives in the title of my question seem to have at ...
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Ultrafilter comonad on the category of Stone spaces
Let $\mathsf{Stone}$ denote the category of Stone spaces (compact, totally disconnected Hausdorff spaces) and continuous maps. The forgetful functor $U : \mathsf{Stone} \to \mathsf{Set}$ has a left ...