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From: Oswald Wyler <owyler@suscom-maine.net>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: comparing cotriples via an adjoint pair
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 11:17:59 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405221056550.23060-100000@203-228.suscom-maine.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040520232118.0235f070@mailbox.syr.edu>

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Gaunce Lewis wrote:

> I have encountered a situation in which I have two categories C, D which
> are related by a pair of adjoint functors L from C to D and R from D to
> C.  Also, there is a cotriple S on C and a cotriple T on D.  Finally, there
> is a natural isomorphism f from RT to SR.  It seems that if a couple of
> diagrams relating f to the structure maps of the cotriples commute, then
> there is an induced adjoint pair relating the two coalgebra categories.  Is
> this, or something similar to it, in the literature in some easily
> referenced place?
>
> Thanks,
> Gaunce

This situation has been encountered since at least 1970 by various
categorists, including myself.  A relevant paper is:
  D. Pumpl\"un, Eine Bemerkung \"uber Monaden und adjungierte Funktoren,
  Math. Annalen 185, 329-337 (1970).
If Gaunce's two commuting diagrams are the usual ones, then his
conjecture is correct.  Observe that in this situation, we have not just
a pair but a quadruple of dual categories, replacing C and D by their
duals, or inverting the direction of arrows, or both.

This may just be a "folk theorem", but it should have been published by
someone, somewhere, and I would also like to have an easily accessible
reference, or references.

Oswald Wyler






  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-22 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-21  3:28 Gaunce Lewis
2004-05-21 20:30 ` Michael Barr
2004-05-21 20:54 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone
2004-05-22 15:17 ` Oswald Wyler [this message]
2004-05-24  9:04 ` Steve Vickers
2004-05-31 13:52 Claudio Hermida

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