Shapely monads and analytic functors

DOI10.1093/LOGCOM/EXX029MaRDI QIDQ4684352zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Garner, Tom Hirschowitz

Publication date 28 September 2018

Published in Journal Of Logic And Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05980

zbMATH Keywords

coherenceoperadsmonadsPROPsgraphical calculipolycategoriesanalytic functors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monads (= standard construction, triple or triad), algebras for monads, homology and derived functors for monads (18C15) Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20) Operads (general) (18M60)

Abstract: In this paper, we give precise mathematical form to the idea of a structure whose data and axioms are faithfully represented by a graphical calculus; some prominent examples are operads, polycategories, properads, and PROPs. Building on the established presentation of such structures as algebras for monads on presheaf categories, we describe a characteristic property of the associated monads---the shapeliness of the title---which says that "any two operations of the same shape agree". An important part of this work is the study of analytic functors between presheaf categories, which are a common generalisation of Joyal's analytic endofunctors on sets and of the parametric right adjoint functors on presheaf categories introduced by Diers and studied by Carboni--Johnstone, Leinster and Weber. Our shapely monads will be found among the analytic endofunctors, and may be characterised as the submonads of a universal analytic monad with "exactly one operation of each shape". In fact, shapeliness also gives a way to define the data and axioms of a structure directly from its graphical calculus, by generating a free shapely monad on the basic operations of the calculus. In this paper we do this for some of the examples listed above; in future work, we intend to do so for graphical calculi such as Milner's bigraphs, Lafont's interaction nets, or Girard's multiplicative proof nets, thereby obtaining canonical notions of denotational model.

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