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On operads, bimodules and analytic functors

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Nicola Gambino, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom and André Joyal, Department de Mathèmatiques, Universitè du Quèbec à Montréal, Case Postale 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montŕeal (Quèbec) H3C 3P8, Canada

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 2017; Volume 249, Number 1184
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2576-0 (print); 978-1-4704-4135-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/1184
Published electronically: August 9, 2017
Keywords: Operad, bimodule, bicategory, symmetric sequence, analytic functor
MSC: Primary 18D50; Secondary 55P48, 18D05, 18C15

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • Introduction
  • 1. Background
  • 2. Monoidal distributors
  • 3. Symmetric sequences
  • 4. The bicategory of operad bimodules
  • 5. Cartesian closure of operad bimodules
  • A. A compendium of bicategorical definitions
  • B. A technical proof

Abstract

We develop further the theory of operads and analytic functors. In particular, we introduce the bicategory $\operatorname {OpdBim}_{\mathcal {V}}$ of operad bimodules, that has operads as $0$-cells, operad bimodules as $1$-cells and operad bimodule maps as 2-cells, and prove that it is cartesian closed. In order to obtain this result, we extend the theory of distributors and the formal theory of monads.

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