Polycategories via pseudo-distributive laws

dc.creatorGarner, Richard
dc.date2006-06-28
dc.date2008-02-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:16:54Z
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dc.descriptionIn 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.
dc.description51 pages with XYpic diagrams; v2: journal version, improvements to Sections 2.2 and 3.2, other minor infelicities corrected; v3: missing appendix reinstated
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606735
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606735
dc.identifierAdvances in Mathematics 218 (2008), no. 3, 781--827
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.aim.2008.02.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/173674
dc.subjectCategory Theory
dc.subject18D05, 03G30 (Primary); 18D50, 03B60 (Secondary)
dc.titlePolycategories via pseudo-distributive laws
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