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Is the Cartesian product of two finitely presented objects finitely presentable?
Let $C$ be a locally finitely presented category, $A, B$ are two finitely presented (synonym: compact) objects in it. Is it true that $A \times B$ is finitely representable?
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Literature about the category of finitary monads
This answer states that the category of finitary monads is locally presentable and monadic over the category $\mathrm{Set}^{\mathbb{N}}$. Where can I find proof of this claim?
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Monads and modules, and the bicompletion under Kleisli and Eilenberg–Moore objects
In The Formal Theory of Monads, Street proves that a 2-category $\mathscr C$ admits the construction of algebras when the inclusion $\mathscr C \to \mathbf{Mnd}(\mathscr C)$ has a right adjoint. In ...
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Does the restriction functor $j^* $ to Zariski open preserve the limit of $j^*$-split cosimplicial diagram?
This might be a trivial question but I could not find a satisfatory answer easily.
Let $X = \mathbb{C}$ and $U = \mathbb{C}^*$, and let $j: U \to X$ denote the open embedding.
Consider $j^* : QCoh(X) \...
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Can a non-free monad have non-trivial "quine"?
Let $\mathbf{Poly}$ denote the category of polynomial functors on $\mathbf{Set}$, and let $\mathfrak{m}\colon\mathbf{Poly}\to\mathbf{Poly}$ be the free monad monad, i.e. the functor that sends every ...
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Is a monad functor also known as a monad map?
Suppose I have a monad $M_S = \langle S , \eta_S, \mu_S \rangle$. I want to map this monad to another monad, $M_Q = \langle Q , \eta_Q, \mu_Q \rangle$. What is the minimum I have to define to give ...
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Cat as a bicategory of monads over another category
Let's assume infinitely many Grothendieck universes exist. Let's call $\kappa$-Cat the bicategory of $\kappa$-small categories with anafunctors and anatural transformations. Now for any $\lambda$ and ...
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Lift a monad along a generic right adjoint
$\require{AMScd}$We have a neat way to lift a monad along a monadic right adjoint, through a distributive law: in a setting like
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It's there a way to take a composite monad and a monad map to create a map of the composite?
Let us suppose you start with two monads, $M_S = \langle S , \eta_S, \mu_S \rangle$ and $M_T = \langle T , \eta_T, \mu_T \rangle$ and suppose you have a distributive law, $\lambda: ST \rightarrow TS$ ...
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How many categories $C$ are there such that $C$ and $C^{\text{op}}$ are monadic over $\mathrm{Set}$?
In this question, bimonadic category is a category $C$ such that $C$ and $C^{\text{op}}$ are monadic over $\mathrm{Set}$.
How many bimonadic categories are there? Can we classify them all?
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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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Why are operads sometimes better than algebraic theories?
Question 1: Are there any contexts in which replacing the category of (non-symmetric or symmetric) operads (in some monoidal category or symmetric monoidal category, respectively) with the category of ...
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Free idempotent monad associated to a monad
Let $C$ be a category. There is a full subcategory $\text{IdemMnd}(C) \hookrightarrow \text{Mnd}(C)$ of the category of monads on $C$ spanned by the idempotent monads. Given a monad $T$ on $C$, ...
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Is the category of computads for a finitary monad on $n$-globular sets cocomplete?
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Given a finitary monad $T:\operatorname{gSet}_n\to\operatorname{gSet}_n$ we can define categories $\operatorname{Comp}_k^T$ of $k$-computads for $T$, for any $k=0,\cdots,n+1$. This is nicely ...
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A new (?) way of composing monads
By composition of monads, I mean given two monads $S$ and $T$, making their composite $S T$ into a monad. Or more generally, given two monoid $X$ and $Y$ in a non-symetric monoidal category, making $X ...
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Extending monads along dense functors
Let $j: \mathsf A \to \mathsf B$ be a fully faithful and dense functor where $\mathsf A$ is a small category and $\mathsf B$ is cocomplete. Let $(T, \eta, \mu)$ be a monad over $\mathsf A$.
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Cyclic lists of multisets
I am wondering if it is appropriate to ask about having a specific algebra for an endofunctor computed. We all know about the multiset monad, and it's endofunctor $\mathcal{M}_S$, and some might know ...
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Separable monads do not induce separable monoids
Let us first recall the categorical notion of monad: if we have a category $\mathcal{C}$ then a monad on it consists in an endofunctor $\mathbb{A}\colon \mathcal{C}\rightarrow \mathcal{C}$ together ...
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What is the free lax-idempotent adjunction?
Let $Adj$ be the free adjunction, i.e. the 2-category such that for any 2-category $K$, the functor 2-category $2Fun(Adj, K)$ is the 2-category of adjunctions in $K$ (naturally in $K$). Note that $Adj$...
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Are infinitary monads monadic?
As discussed here, Are monads monadic?, in "On the monadicity of finitary monads" by Steve Lack, the following is shown, the forgetful functor from $Mnd_f(C) \rightarrow Endo_f(C)$ is ...
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Well-behaved monad quotients
Reading through Modular specification of monads through higher-order presentations, this paper includes the following lemma within set-truncated homotopy type theory:
Given a monad $R$ (they work on ...
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The S-module Ass is same as the composite of Com and Lie
It has been cited in several places (eg. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.05519.pdf) that the S-module Ass is isomorphic to the composite of the S-modules Com and Lie. Is there a reference which gives the ...
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What are the algebras for the laxification 2-monad?
Let $C$ be a small 2-category. Let $[C , Cat]$ denote the 2-category of strict functors to $Cat$, 2-natural transformations, and modifications. Let $[[ C, Cat ]]$ denote the 2-category with the same ...
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EM functor from monads to adjunctions
What is the action on $1$-cells of the functor sending a monad to its EM adjunction? What about the Kleisli adjunction?
Let $A$ be the walking adjunction. Recall that an adjunction is the same thing ...
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Any example of a non-strong monad?
Looking for an example of a monad that is not strong.
The reason being, a strong monad (wrt cartesian product) is an "applicative functor" (in functional programming); an example of a non-strong ...
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Homotopy fixed points vs coalgebras
Referring to the last part of this answer https://mathoverflow.net/a/225403/170683, I would like to understand how in the case of a Galois cover $f\colon X\to Y=X/G$ with Galois group $G$ (I guess ...
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Are pseudomonoids weak algebras for a 2-monad?
I would like to know if whether or not the pseudomonoids in an arbitrary monoidal 2-category are (equivalent to) the weak algebras for some 2-monad (I am thinking about the free monoidal category 2-...
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When is the Eilenberg-Moore category of a monad on an ind-category itself an ind-category?
I have a monad on an ind-category (specifically, my ind-category has a monoidal structure and I have an algebra object, so the monad is tensoring with it). It would be very useful in my work if the ...
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Let $T$ be a strongly cartesian monad on a presheaf category $\hat C$. Then is $\hat C$ comonadic over $\operatorname{Alg} T$?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Alg{Alg}\newcommand{\Set}{\mathit{Set}}\newcommand{\Set}{\mathit{Set}}\newcommand{\Ab}{\mathit{Ab}}$Let $C$ be a small category, and let $T$ be a strongly cartesian monad on the ...
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Monad induced by actegory
It seems to be folklore that if we have an actegory, i.e. a monoidal functor from a monoidal category $C$ to an endofunctor category $Cat(D,D)$, we can obtain from it a monad on $D$. This appears for ...
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Uniqueness of comparison functors
Given an adjunction $F\dashv G:\mathcal{C}\rightleftarrows\mathcal{D}$ with unit $\eta$ and counit $\epsilon$, we naturally have a monad $(G\circ F,\eta,G\epsilon_F)$ on $\mathcal{C}$ and a comparison ...
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What is the universal property of algebras for the codensity monad?
Let $F : A \to B$ be a functor, and suppose that the right Kan extension $T = Ran_F F : B \to B$ exists. Then $T$ is a monad, the codensity monad of $F$. Moreover, unless I'm mistaken there is a ...
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Constructing the E-M category of a monad out of inserters and equifiers
As suggested in the answer to another MO question, it seems possible to construct the E-M category of a monad $T:\mathcal{C}\to\mathcal{C}$ as an inserter followed by two equifiers as follows (I am ...
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Adjoints to the forgetful functor from the $2$-category of monads
For the purpose of this post, we will identify a monad $T$ on a category $\mathcal{C}$ with a lax $2$-functor $T:{\bf 1}\to\mathfrak{Cat}$ such that $T(*)=\mathcal{C}$.
There is an obvious forgetful ...
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The Kleisli category of a monoidal monad
Let $C$ be a symmetric monoidal category equipped with diagonals $\triangle_x: x \to x \otimes x$, that is, equipped with natural transformations $e_x: x \to 1$ and $\triangle_x : x \to x \otimes x $ ...
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Original reference for the correspondence between commutative algebraic theories and commutative monads
Commutative algebraic theories were introduced by Linton in the 1966 paper Autonomous Equational Categories. Commutative monads were introduced by Kock in the 1970 paper Monads on symmetric monoidal ...
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Cohomology without comonad?
TL;DR. Many cohomologies can be unified using comonads. Question: which cohomologies cannot be?
For each algebraic theory, there is an adjunction, and therefore a (co)monad (or called a (co)triple). ...
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Why are simplicial objects monadic over split (contractible) simplicial objects?
Given an augmented simplicial object $d_\bullet:X_\bullet \to \Delta X_{-1}$, suppose there's a simplicial map $s_\bullet :\Delta X_{-1}\to X_\bullet$ making $d_\bullet$ a deformation retract, i.e ...
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Characterisation of functors whose left adjoint is Kleisli
This question is inspired by Characterization of functors whose right adjoint is monadic?.
Let $F : \mathbf C \rightleftarrows \mathbf D : U$ be an adjunction, and suppose that we want to establish ...
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Jon Beck's untitled manuscript containing the "tripleability theorem" (i.e. the monadicity theorem)
Many papers refer to an untitled manuscript of Jon Beck (Cornell, 1966) for the origin of the monadicity theorem (originally called a "tripleability theorem"). An early proof is in Manes's ...
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The bidualizing monad
Let $\mathbf{C}$ be a closed symmetric monoidal category (I probably need even less than this; the examples I have in mind are simply the category of modules over a commutative ring and the category ...
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Reference request for Linton's theorems on equational theories
This is a reference request for the following "well-known" theorems in category theory:
There is an equivalence of categories between finitary monads on $\mathbf{Set}$ and finitary Lawvere ...
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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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When do objects in the image of a functor $G$ have a unique action as algebras over the codensity monad of $G$?
Let $G:\mathcal{B}\longrightarrow \mathcal{A}$ be some functor which admits a right Kan extension along itself, $(\operatorname{Ran}_G G, \eta:\operatorname{Ran}_G G \circ G \rightarrow G)$.
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What are internal complete atomic boolean algebras, intuitively?
The category of complete atomic boolean algebras $\mathbf{CABA}$ is equivalent to $\mathbf{Set}^{\mathrm{op}}$ via
$$\mathbf{Set}^{\mathrm{op}} \to \mathbf{CABA}, ~ X \mapsto (P(X),\bigcup,\bigcap).$$
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Frobenius monads and groupoids
For a while, I was looking for a Frobenius monad on Set. It doesn't exist as pointed out here. I am now looking at the 2-category of groupoids. Does the 2-category of groupoids admit a Frobenius ...
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is shuffle a Monad?
In the list monad, your map $TT \rightarrow T$ takes a list of lists and concatenates them to form a list. There is another way to take a list of lists and create a list, which is to shuffle randomly ...
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Diagrammatic model for free product in monad infinity category
$\newcommand{\C}{\mathcal{C}}$ Suppose $M$ is a monad in an $\infty$-category $\C,$ and $A, B$ are two algebras over $M$. I'm willing to assume any reasonable "niceness" conditions on $\C$, $...
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Algebras for general transfors
Algebras for endofunctors bridge the gap between functors acting on a category and structures defined in it. An algebra for an endofunctor $F$ is instantiated by some morphism $Fa \to a$, and more ...
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Finitary endofunctors: "Support" of elements of $TM$ where $T:\mathrm{Set}\to\mathrm{Set}$ is finitary
Consider the word a.k.a. list monad $W:\mathrm{Set}\to\mathrm{Set}$ assigning to a given set $M$ the set of words over $M$. Now, given a set $M$, we can assign to every word $w\in WM$ a subset of $M$:
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