Kan extensions are partial colimits

One way of interpreting a left Kan extension is as taking a kind of “partial colimit”, whereby one replaces parts of a diagram by their colimits. We make this intuition precise by means of the partial evaluations sitting in the so-called bar construction of monads. The (pseudo)monads of interest for...

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Main Authors: Perrone, P, Tholen, W
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2022