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Doctrines, modalities and comonads

Francesco Dagnino·Giuseppe Rosolini
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Doctrines are categorical structures very apt to study logics of different nature within a unified environment: the 2-category Dtn of doctrines. Modal interior operators are characterised as particular adjoints in the 2-category Dtn. We show that they can be constructed from comonads in Dtn as well as from adjunctions in it, and the two constructions compare. Finally we show the amount of information lost in the passage from a comonad, or from an adjunction, to the modal interior operator. The basis for the present work is provided by some seminal work of John Power.

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Francesco Dagnino, Giuseppe Rosolini. 2021-07-29. Doctrines, modalities and comonads. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960129521000207

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