nLab algebra over a Lawvere theory

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Definition

A Lawvere theory is encoded in its syntactic category TT, a category with finite products such that all objects are finite products of a given object.

An algebra over a Lawvere theory TT, or TT-algebra for short, is a model for this algebraic theory: it is a product-preserving functor

A:TSet. A : T \to Set \,.

The category of TT-algebras is the full subcategory of the functor category on the product-preserving functors

TAlg:=[T,Set] ×[T,Set]. T Alg := [T,Set]_\times \subset [T,Set] \,.

For more discussion, properties and examples see for the moment Lawvere theory.

Properties

Proposition

The category TAlgT Alg has all limits and these are computed objectwise, hence the embedding TAlg[T,Set]T Alg \to [T,Set] preserves these limits.

Proposition

TAlgT Alg is a reflective subcategory of [T,Set][T, Set]:

TAlg[T,Set]. T Alg \stackrel{\leftarrow}{\hookrightarrow} [T,Set] \,.
Proof

With the above this follows using the adjoint functor theorem.

Corollary

The category TAlgT Alg has all colimits.

for more see Lawvere theory for the moment

Examples

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