The existential completion

Abstract

We determine the existential completion of a primary doctrine, and we prove that the 2-monad obtained from it is lax-idempotent, and that the 2-category of existential doctrines is isomorphic to the 2-category of algebras for this 2-monad.We also show that the existential completion of an elementary doctrine is again elementary. Finally we extend the notion of exact completion of an elementary existential doctrine to an arbitrary elementary doctrine.

Type
Publication
In Theory and Applications of Categories
Davide Trotta
Davide Trotta
Assistant professor (RTDA)

I am a mathematician, and my research is mainly focused on categorical logic and its applications in theoretical computer science.