nLab weak distributive law

Weak distributive laws

Context

Higher algebra

2-Category theory

Weak distributive laws

Idea

The notion of a weak distributive law between two monads is a generalisation of that of a distributive law, in which forming the composite monad requires splitting an idempotent on the underlying composite endofunctor.

References

See also weak bimonad.

Weak distributive laws among monads:

For the weak mixed distributive law (monad and comonad) version see

2-categorical context in the sense of formal theory of monads is also exposed in

An application of weak distributive laws to explain Street’s weak wreath products (comparable to the treatment of wreaths in bicategories) and also related bilinear factorization structures

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