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whoever before has wondered about the elusive integral notation for the coend, your time has come :)
Consider this example: let C be the category of finite dimensional vector spaces over a field k. Let F:C×Cop→C be the functor sending (V,W) to V⊗W*. Then ∫V∈CF(V,V)≅k. The structure maps εV in the coend are ev:V⊗V*→k sending v⊗f to f(v).
In this case, and others, the recipient of the integration pairing is canonically a coend of Hom(W,V)≅V*⊗W. What I am (hesitantly) suggesting is that the coend
∫V∈CV*⊗Vand its structure maps
εX:V*⊗V→kare the universal construction by which the intensives and the extensives are integrated against each other.
Note: the coend ∫CHom(W,V) is far more general than the integration pairing, but seems to match it in many cases.
Little conjecture: Let D be the category of Banach spaces with short maps as morphisms. Let F:D×Dop→D be the functor sending (V,W) to Vˆ⊗W*. Then ∫V∈DF(V,V)≅ℝ.The structure maps εV are ev:Vˆ⊗V*→k sending v⊗f to f(v). Let CH be the category of compact hausdorff spaces and let X be an object in CH. Let V=[X,ℝ]CH, an object in D. An element in V* is a choice of integral (a choice of which extensive property to integrate against), and for ϕ∈V* and f∈V,
ϕ(v)=ev(v⊗ϕ)=:∫vdϕYour thoughts?
(P.S. I wrote the last post, but I wasn’t signed in.)
Loregian’s book on coends opens with this kind of comparison.
Hmm, with the end as ’subspace of invariants for the action’ and coend as ’the space of orbits of said action’ is a HoTT rendition possible? I guess a starting point is:
In complete analogy to how limits are right adjoint functors to the diagonal functor, ends are right adjoint functors to the hom functor.
I see there’s section 2.2.2 of Combinatorial species and labelled structures on ’Coends in HoTT’. [Right, I see the Haskell community write as homotopy (co)limits: exists x. p x x, forall x. p x x.]
Proposition: Let V be a monoidal closed category with tensor ⊗V and internal hom [X,Y]V. Suppose that the Kan extension LanIdV(IdV) exists and is pointwise. Then
X≅IdV(X)≅LanIdV(IdV)(X)≅∫Y∈V[Y,X]V⊗VYLet Ban1 be the category of Banach spaces and short maps. Ban1 has an internal Hom consisting of bounded maps (Write [−,−] for external Hom and Hom(−,−) for internal Hom). Internal Hom has a left adjoint, projective tensor product.
Theorem: LanIdBan1(IdBan1) exists and is pointwise, so that
ℝ≅IdD(ℝ)≅LanIdD(IdD)≅∫V∈D[V,ℝ]⊗DVwhere ⊗D is projective tensor product.
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