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An adjoint triple is called an ambidextrous adjunction (or sometimes ambiadjunction or ambijunction, for short) if the left adjoint and the right adjoint of are isomorphic , or, more precisely: equipped with a specified isomorphism.
In fact, often is identified with , which is the situation of a strongly adjoint pair originally considered by Morita 1965. Some authors refer to this situation by saying that is a Frobenius functor (ie. a functor which has a left adjoint that is also a right adjoint). In this case, ambidexterity is a property of a pair of functors, rather than structure on a triple of functors.
Sometimes is said to be biadjoint to (not to be confused with biadjoint in the sense of biadjunction). Functor which has a left and right adjoint which are equivalent is said to be Frobenius functor.
In the special case that is a fully faithful functor with an ambidextrous adjoint one also speaks of an essential localization (cf. bireflective subcategory).
The monad induced by an ambidextrous adjunction is a Frobenius monoid object in endofunctors. (e.g. Lauda 05, theorem 17), hence a Frobenius monad.
Let be an (∞,1)-category with small (∞,1)-colimits. For a morphism of ∞-groupoids, write
for the induced pullback of (∞,1)-functor (∞,1)-categories (which one may think of as the categories of -valued local systems over and , respectively). The left adjoint and right adjoint (if it exists) of this are left and right (∞,1)-Kan extension.
Say that a morphism is -ambidextrous if is an ambidextrous adjunction and in addtion all pullbacks of satisfy some property (…).
Say that an ∞-groupoid is -ambidextrous if its terminal map is.
(Hopkins-Lurie 14, def. 4.1.11)
A morphism between ∞-groupoids, is -ambidextrous, def. , precisely if each homotopy fiber of is.
(Hopkins-Lurie 14, prop. 4.3.5)
(coincident limits and colimits)
Let be a small category and any category and consider the functor that sends objects to constant presheaves with this value. Then the right adjoint of this functor is, if it exists, the limit construction, and the left adjoint is, if it exists, the colimit construction. (See also at Kan extension.) Therefore if both exist as an ambidextrous adjunction, then this means that limits in over diagrams of shape coincide with the colimits over these diagrams. If is a finite set, then this situation is traditionally referred to as biproducts. Generally therefore this is sometimes called bilimits (but see the discussion of the terminology there).
In (Hopkins-Lurie 14, section 4.3) such is called -ambidextrous (or rather, they consider an ∞-groupoid and hence call it a -ambidextrous space). Concrete examples of this include those discussed at K(n)-local stable homotopy theory.
(Yoga of six functors)
A Wirthmüller context in the presence of an un-twisted Wirthmüller isomorphism is an ambidextrous adjunction.
Every self-adjoint functor forms an ambidextrous adjunction.
Ambidextrous adjunctions were maybe first considered under the name strongly adjoint pairs (of functors), in:
The terminology “Frobenius functors” for “strongly adjoint pairs” is due to
Stefaan Caenepeel, Gigel Militaru, Shenglin Zhu, Doi-Hopf modules, Yetter-Drinfel’d modules and Frobenius type properties, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997) 4311-4342 [1997-349-11/S0002-9947-97-02004-7, pdf]
F. Castaño Iglesias, José Gómez Torrecillas, C. Nastasescu, Frobenius functors: applications, Comm. Alg. 27 10 (1998) 4879-4900 [doi:10.1080/00927879908826735]
The case of bireflective subcategories:
On the Frobenius monads induced by ambidextrous adjuntions:
Ross Street, Frobenius monads and pseudomonoids, J. Math. Phys. 45 3930 (2004) [doi:10.1063/1.1788852]
Aaron Lauda, Frobenius algebras and ambidextrous adjunctions, Theory and Applications of Categories 16 4 (2006) 84-122 [arXiv:math/0502550, tac:16-04]
See also:
with some review in:
On the issue of equipping an ambidextrous adjunction with a specific equivalence between and :
Connection to Hopf adjunctions
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