Algebraic Kan extensions along morphisms of internal algebra classifiers

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DOI10.1515/TMJ-2016-0006zbMATH Open1342.18017arXiv1511.04911OpenAlexW2963818272MaRDI QIDQ278230FDOQ278230

Mark Weber

Publication date: 2 May 2016

Published in: Tbilisi Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An algebraic left Kan extension is a left Kan extension which interacts well with the algebraic structure present in the given situation, and these appear in various subjects such as the homotopy theory of operads and in the study of conformal field theories. In the most interesting examples, the functor along which we left Kan extend goes between categories that enjoy universal properties which express the meaning of the calculation we are trying to understand. These universal properties say that the categories in question are universal examples of some categorical structure possessing some kind of internal structure, and so fall within the theory of internal algebra classifiers described in earlier work of the author. In this article conditions of a monad-theoretic nature are identified which give rise to morphisms between such universal objects, which satisfy the key condition of Guitart-exactness, which guarantees the algebraicness of left Kan extending along them. The resulting setting explains the algebraicness of the left Kan extensions arising in operad theory, for instance from the theory of Feynman categories of Kaufmann and Ward, generalisations thereof, and also includes the situations considered by Batanin and Berger in their work on the homotopy theory of algebras of polynomial monads.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04911





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