Abstract
In this paper, we give a novel abstract description of Szabo's polycategories. We use the theory of double clubs - a generalisation of Kelly's theory of clubs to 'pseudo' (or 'weak') double categories - to construct a pseudo-distributive law of the free symmetric strict monoidal category pseudocomonad on Mod over itself qua pseudomonad, and show that monads in the 'two-sided Kleisli bicategory' of this pseudo-distributive law are precisely symmetric polycategories.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 781-827 |
| Number of pages | 47 |
| Journal | Advances in Mathematics |
| Volume | 218 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Jun 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Clubs
- Polycategory
- Pseudo double category
- Pseudo-distributive law
- Pseudomonad
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