TY - JOUR
T1 - On the 2-categories of weak distributive laws
AU - Böhm, Gabriella
AU - Lack, Stephen
AU - Street, Ross
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - A weak mixed distributive law (also called weak entwining structure [8]) in a 2-category consists of a monad and a comonad, together with a 2-cell relating them in a way which generalizes a mixed distributive law due to Beck. We show that a weak mixed distributive law can be described as a compatible pair of a monad and a comonad, in 2-categories extending, respectively, the 2-category of comonads and the 2-category of monads in [13]. Based on this observation, we define a 2-category whose 0-cells are weak mixed distributive laws. In a 2-category K which admits Eilenberg-Moore constructions both for monads and comonads, and in which idempotent 2-cells split, we construct a fully faithful 2-functor from this 2-category of weak mixed distributive laws to K 2×2.
AB - A weak mixed distributive law (also called weak entwining structure [8]) in a 2-category consists of a monad and a comonad, together with a 2-cell relating them in a way which generalizes a mixed distributive law due to Beck. We show that a weak mixed distributive law can be described as a compatible pair of a monad and a comonad, in 2-categories extending, respectively, the 2-category of comonads and the 2-category of monads in [13]. Based on this observation, we define a 2-category whose 0-cells are weak mixed distributive laws. In a 2-category K which admits Eilenberg-Moore constructions both for monads and comonads, and in which idempotent 2-cells split, we construct a fully faithful 2-functor from this 2-category of weak mixed distributive laws to K 2×2.
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U2 - 10.1080/00927872.2011.616436
DO - 10.1080/00927872.2011.616436
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857016331
SN - 0092-7872
VL - 39
SP - 4567
EP - 4583
JO - Communications in Algebra
JF - Communications in Algebra
IS - 12
ER -