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Lifting as a KZ-doctrine

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Category Theory and Computer Science (CTCS 1995)

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In a cartesian closed category with an initial object and a dominance that classifies it, an intensional notion of approximation between maps —the path relation (c.f. link relation)— is defined. It is shown that if such a category admits strict/upper-closed factorisations then it preorderenriches (as a cartesian closed category) with respect to the path relation. By imposing further axioms we can, on the one hand, endow maps and proofs of their approximations (viz. paths) with the 2-dimensional algebraic structure of a sesqui-category and, on the other, characterise lifting as a preorder-enriched lax colimit. As a consequence of the latter the lifting (or partial map classifier) monad becomes a KZ-doctrine.

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Fiore, M.P. (1995). Lifting as a KZ-doctrine. In: Pitt, D., Rydeheard, D.E., Johnstone, P. (eds) Category Theory and Computer Science. CTCS 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 953. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60164-3_24

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