Enriched algebraic theories and monads for a system of arities

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Abstract: Under a minimum of assumptions, we develop in generality the basic theory of universal algebra in a symmetric monoidal closed category mathcalV with respect to a specified system of arities j:mathcalJhookrightarrowmathcalV. Lawvere's notion of algebraic theory generalizes to this context, resulting in the notion of single-sorted mathcalV-enriched mathcalJ-cotensor theory, or mathcalJ-theory for short. For suitable choices of mathcalV and mathcalJ, such mathcalJ-theories include the enriched algebraic theories of Borceux and Day, the enriched Lawvere theories of Power, the equational theories of Linton's 1965 work, and the mathcalV-theories of Dubuc, which are recovered by taking mathcalJ=mathcalV and correspond to arbitrary mathcalV-monads on mathcalV. We identify a modest condition on j that entails that the mathcalV-category of mathcalT-algebras exists and is monadic over mathcalV for every mathcalJ-theory mathcalT, even when mathcalT is not small and mathcalV is neither complete nor cocomplete. We show that j satisfies this condition if and only if j presents mathcalV as a free cocompletion of mathcalJ with respect to the weights for left Kan extensions along j, and so we call such systems of arities eleutheric. We show that mathcalJ-theories for an eleutheric system may be equivalently described as (i) monads in a certain one-object bicategory of profunctors on mathcalJ, and (ii) mathcalV-monads on mathcalV satisfying a certain condition. We prove a characterization theorem for the categories of algebras of mathcalJ-theories, considered as mathcalV-categories mathcalA equipped with a specified mathcalV-functor mathcalAightarrowmathcalV.









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