Spahn codensity monad

References

It is not necessary for a functor to have an adjoint to canonically associate a monad to it. The codensity monad of a functor FF (if it exists) is the right Kan extension of FF along itself.

References

  • Tom Leinster,
    • where do monads come from?, post to the n-CafĂ©, web
    • codensity and the ultrafilter monad, arXiv:1209.3606

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