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Pseudomonads and their Kleisli bicategories

Open masaeedu opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

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)?

masaeedu avatar Sep 22 '21 12:09 masaeedu

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.

JacquesCarette avatar Sep 22 '21 13:09 JacquesCarette

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

masaeedu avatar Sep 22 '21 16:09 masaeedu