Eugenia Cheng - Distributive laws for Lawvere theories

compositionality:13507 - Compositionality, May 25, 2020, Volume 2 (2020) - https://doi.org/10.32408/compositionality-2-1
Distributive laws for Lawvere theoriesArticle

Authors: Eugenia Cheng ORCID1

Distributive laws give a way of combining two algebraic structures expressed as monads; in this paper we propose a theory of distributive laws for combining algebraic structures expressed as Lawvere theories. We propose four approaches, involving profunctors, monoidal profunctors, an extension of the free finite-product category 2-monad from Cat to Prof, and factorisation systems respectively. We exhibit comparison functors between CAT and each of these new frameworks to show that the distributive laws between the Lawvere theories correspond in a suitable way to distributive laws between their associated finitary monads. The different but equivalent formulations then provide, between them, a framework conducive to generalisation, but also an explicit description of the composite theories arising from distributive laws.


Volume: Volume 2 (2020)
Published on: May 25, 2020
Imported on: May 2, 2024
Keywords: Mathematics - Category Theory

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