From: "Prof. Peter Johnstone" <P.T.Johnstone@dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
To: Richard Garner <r.h.g.garner@gmail.com>
Cc: Categories mailing list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Tensor of monads
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:17:32 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Og3Z7-0002Zr-RJ@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Ofu8B-0006iP-MA@mlist.mta.ca>
Dear Richard,
Your (*) is not an additional condition. Being a sheaf for both J and J'
is equivalent to being a sheaf for their join (which I presume is what you
mean by J n J'). For a proof, see A4.5.16 in the Elephant.
Peter
---------------------------
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Richard Garner wrote:
> Further to my earlier question:
>
> -- Given idempotent monads S, T on a category C for which we can speak of
>> the tensor of S and T, is it always the case that S * T is isomorphic to S +
>> T?
>>
>
> I think I'm now happy that the answer is "no". Consider, as in my previous
> message, a presheaf category [D^op, Set]. Let S and T be the idempotent
> monads corresponding to two
> Grothendieck topologies J and J' on [D^op, Set]. Then S + T is the monad
> whose algebras are presheaves which are simultaneously J-sheaves and
> J'-sheaves. On the other hand,
> S * T has as algebras those presheaves X which are both J-sheaves and
> J'-sheaves, but which satisfy an additional axiom (*). This axiom may be
> expressed most expediently when D has finite products; so let us assume that
> now. The condition says:
>
> (*) Let f_i : U_i --> U be J-covering, and let g_k : V_k --> V be
> J'-covering. Let ( x_ik \in X(U_i x V_k) ) be a compatible family for ( f_i
> x g_k : U_i x V_j --> U x V ). Then the two natural ways of patching to an
> element of X(U x V) agree.
>
> These two ways of patching are as follows. For the first, note that since (
> f_i x V_k | i \in I ) is J-covering for each k in K, we may patch to obtain
> elements ( y_k \in X(U x V_k) | k \in K ). Then since ( U x g_k | k \in K )
> is J'-covering, we may patch these to obtain an element z \in X(U x V). For
> the second way of patching, we proceed entirely analogously, but this time
> going via a family ( y'_i \in X(U_i x V) | i \in I).
>
> Now (*) is a genuine extra condition which as far as I can see is not a
> consequence of being both a J-sheaf and a J'-sheaf, so that S + T algebras
> are not the same as S * T algebras. Note, however, that (*) _is_ a
> consequence of being a (J n J')-sheaf, since ( f_i x g_j ) is covering in J
> n J'. On the other hand, I'm not sure if (*) implies being a (J n J')-sheaf,
> as I conjectured in my previous message; I don't have an Elephant to hand to
> check.
>
> Richard
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 14:02 Sergey Goncharov
2010-07-29 8:21 ` N.Bowler
2010-07-29 9:18 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone
2010-07-29 10:29 ` Michael Barr
2010-07-31 8:45 ` Richard Garner
[not found] ` <AANLkTinxyVQ1fXu7DLWu4CUF3AP2KPX6PLQFDB+zG4Ef@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-31 12:48 ` Michael Barr
[not found] ` <alpine.LRH.2.00.1007291006210.5174@siskin.dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
2010-07-29 13:24 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone
[not found] ` <alpine.LRH.2.00.1007291422370.5174@siskin.dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
2010-07-30 1:02 ` Sergey Goncharov
2010-07-31 20:34 ` Eckmann-Hilton (Was: Tensor of monads) Toby Bartels
[not found] ` <4C5224A4.4000105@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
2010-07-30 10:37 ` Tensor of monads Prof. Peter Johnstone
2010-07-30 22:41 ` Tom Leinster
2010-08-01 19:49 ` Ronnie Brown
2010-08-02 9:47 ` Ronnie Brown
2010-08-01 0:31 ` Richard Garner
2010-08-02 19:55 ` Paul Levy
2010-08-03 6:39 ` Richard Garner
[not found] ` <AANLkTimd202AX=3hUqU9ABkKUy9Z4Loh1RXTiDgVZ3Ku@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-03 11:03 ` Paul Levy
2010-08-09 20:26 ` Paul Levy
2010-08-05 20:06 ` Sergey Goncharov
2010-08-08 19:24 ` Gordon Plotkin
2010-07-30 3:44 ` Joyal, André
[not found] ` <AANLkTin5+paq8sP-eVjdf8rZOyA-z=t6QzAhCqVUsyQi@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-01 9:13 ` Richard Garner
2010-08-02 14:17 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone [this message]
[not found] ` <alpine.LRH.2.00.1008021514290.18118@siskin.dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
2010-08-02 21:12 ` Richard Garner
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