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Added a diagram at commutative algebraic theory using the totally awesome SVG Editor.
it now does itex!
This was a ridiculously simple diagram to do.
The matrices don't show up in opera.
Gosh! There's no satisfying some people, is there?
Seriously, exactly which bit doesn't show up? Better still, email me a screenshot.
Awesome :)
@Andrew. Lovely but are there some righthand ) s that are either missing or swallowed by abigger bracket?
I've enlarged the boxes that contain the MathML bits. Does it look better now? What browser (and version) are you using?
I just tried Opera and none of the MathML comes out, but then I think that Opera's rendering of MathML is broken as a whole (at least, it was; not sure what the current state of affairs is). Jacques' blog is a must-read on things like that.
The SVG-editor should now be considered fully usable. There will, no doubt, be bugs and "features" but Jacques says that he thinks the main issues have been sorted out and would like lots of people to try it out. I'll put up more detailed instructions at the SVG Editor HowTo when I get a moment.
I have added a brief Idea-sentence to commutative algebraic theory together with a brief mentioning of monoidal mondads.
Since there is also a good list of references, the following query box, which used to be there, should be obsolete, and so I am hereby moving it from there to here:
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+– {: .query} Can we have some please! This is something I want to use soon so it’d be nice to know where the details were originally worked out. —Andrew
Mike: We should really have a separate page on monoidal monads since that notion is more general than its restriction to the case of algebraic theories. =–
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I made some changes to the Idea-sentence at commutative algebraic theory. Notice that commutativity (with respect to permuting arguments) is much stronger than what is implied by the notion of commutative algebraic theory; for example, the theory generated by a single binary operation and subject to the equation is a commutative theory, but you get a different 4-ary operation if you permute and .
This entry deserves further expansion, which I will try to get to later.
I still think we ought to have a separate page on monoidal monads. But I guess I don’t think that strongly enough yet to take the time to write one myself.
Mike, I agree with you, and I was also hoping to get to that myself as well.
I have added more material to commutative algebraic theory, saying something about the relation to monoidal monad, for instance.
Nice, thank you! I’m a bit confused about the tensor product of Lawvere theories; when you say every theory is a monoid for do you mean in a unique or canonical way? That seems to say that every -algebra is automatically a -algebra internal to -algebras; isn’t that more of a property of commutative theories?
Mike, thanks for having a look – I probably goofed up here; I was in a hurry. I’ll need to think about what I wanted to say. (I thought I eventually wanted to say that the Kronecker product is a coproduct for commutative theories, and I must have had an analogy with rings vaguely in mind when I pulled the goof.)
I’m slightly confused. At some point in the article we seem to go from considering general monads to strong monads…?
Zhen, the monads considered in the article commutative algebraic theory are monads on , where they all automatically carry canonical strengths. But there is an interesting circle of ideas surrounding commutative monads and monoidal monads (as explored in Kock’s article) when one moves to more general monads on monoidal .
Ah. I didn’t know about that. Is the strength supposed to be obvious? I’m not seeing a way to get a canonical map for an arbitrary monad. Or is this a special fact about commutative monads?
It’s only obvious after you think of a strength as more or less the same as an enrichment of a functor (plus the fact that all functors are automatically -enriched). If is enriched (and we write internal homs as exponentials), then a strength can be defined as the mate of the composite
where the first arrow is the unit of the adjunction and the second is an instance of enrichment. Conversely, if you have a strength, you get an enrichment by taking the mate of the composite
Very clearly explained, thanks! Perhaps it should be added to the strong monad article.
Just for amusement value, a more concrete set-based way to say it is: a point defines a map “pair with ” . Apply to that map to get . Since there’s one such map for each , we have . If you interpret this in the internal logic of any ccc, with an enriched functor, you get the proof that Todd gave. (And I suppose you could interpret it in the “internal linear logic” of an arbitrary closed monoidal category too.)
The definition isn’t wrong, but this article is about commutative algebraic theories, which from one point of view are certain strong monads on , not on a general symmetric monoidal category.
That’s exactly what I have tried to clarify (it was unclear before), check it out: diff 35.
You’re defining a notion more general than what the entry is actually about, is what I’m saying.
That’s exactly what I have tried to clarify (it was unclear before), check it out: diff 35.
Urs, I’m not sure why we’re having this breakdown in communication, but I saw your response the first time, and didn’t think it was responsive to what I was pointing out. Repeating it verbatim is not helpful.
I’ll try editing it a bit, and then see what happens.
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