Lax distributive laws for topology. I

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Abstract: For a quantaloid mathcalQ, considered as a bicategory, Walters introduced categories enriched in mathcalQ. Here we extend the study of monad-quantale-enriched categories of the past fifteen years by introducing monad-quantaloid-enriched categories. We do so by making lax distributive laws of a monad mathbbT over the discrete presheaf monad of the small quantaloid mathcalQ the primary data of the theory, rather than the lax monad extensions of mathbbT to the category of mathcalQ-relations that they equivalently describe. The central piece of the paper establishes a Galois correspondence between such lax distributive laws and lax Eilenberg-Moore mathbbT-algebra structures on the set of discrete presheaves over the object set of mathcalQ. We give a precise comparison of these structures with the more restrictive notion introduced by Hofmann in the case of a commutative quantale, called natural topological theories here, and describe the lax monad extensions introduced by him as minimal. Throughout the paper, a variety of old and new examples of ordered, metric and topological structures illustrate the theory developed, which includes the consideration of algebraic functors and change-of-base functors in full generality.









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