Questions tagged [monads]
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Are monads monadic?
Is there some sort of monad whose algebras are monads? How about if we are internal to a bicategory B? Are internal monads in B monadic? Certainly not always, as otherwise free T-multicategories a la ...
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Right actions of operads and monads
Given an operad $A$, there is an associated monad $M_A$ given by $M_A(X) = \coprod_n A(n) \otimes X^{\otimes n}$ such that being an $A$-algebra and being an algebra over the monad $M_A$ is the same ...
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Where is there a treatment of "exponential monads"?
I have a category $C$, which is equipped with a symmetric monoidal structure (tensor product $\otimes$, unit object $1$). My category also has finite coproducts (I'll write them using $\oplus$, and ...
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What kind of operations does the Tall-Wraith monoid encode?
According to the nLab page, for an algebraic theory V a Tall–Wraith V-monoid is "the kind of thing that acts on V-algebras". Well, it certainly does act on V-algebras, but in which sense is it "the ...
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How exactly is Hochschild homology a monad homology?
Many texts which praise the generality of the bar construction associated to a monad, say that Hochschild homology is an example of this.
What exactly is in this case the underlying endofunctor of ...
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