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Pseudomonads and their Kleisli bicategories #310

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masaeedu opened this issue Sep 22, 2021 · 2 comments
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Pseudomonads and their Kleisli bicategories #310

masaeedu opened this issue Sep 22, 2021 · 2 comments

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@masaeedu
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Hello there. I'm not sure if I'm looking in the right places, but it seems like the library doesn't have a notion of a pseudomonad (a monad on a bicategory, as opposed to the monad in a bicategory that lives in src/Categories/Bicategory/Monad.agda). Is that correct? If so, would it be useful to add that (and perhaps the notion of the Kleisli bicategory that can be derived from any such pseudomonad)?

@JacquesCarette
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If you mean in the sense of weak 2-monad, then yes, that would be useful. I specify weak because we've found that strictness of various kinds seems to not work so well in this setting.

@masaeedu
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@JacquesCarette Ah yes, a "weak 2-monad" is what I meant indeed. Somewhat confusingly, the relevant equipment includes pseudonatural (and not lax natural) transformations...

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