Weak distributive laws

Ross Street*

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    Abstract

    Distributive laws between monads (triples) were defined by Jon Beck in the 1960s; see [1]. They were generalized to monads in 2-categories and noticed to be monads in a 2-category of monads; see [2]. Mixed distributive laws are comonads in the 2-category of monads [3]; if the comonad has a right adjoint monad, the mate of a mixed distributive law is an ordinary distributive law. Particular cases are the entwining operators between algebras and coalgebras; for example, see [4]. Motivated by work on weak entwining operators (see [5] and [6]), we define and study a weak notion of distributive law for monads. In particular, each weak distributive law determines a wreath product monad (in the terminology of [7]); this gives an advantage over the mixed case.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)313-320
    Number of pages8
    JournalTheory and Applications of Categories
    Volume22
    Publication statusPublished - 28 Jan 2009

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