Colimits and Day convolution #
Day convolution with a fixed left factor preserves colimits whenever left tensoring with its values does. The proof factors convolution into the external product and left Kan extension along the tensor functor. It does not require a closed monoidal structure.
The result applies to any lawful presentation of Day convolution whose interpretation functor preserves and reflects the colimits in question. In particular it applies to symmetric sequences, allowing colimits of modules over a sphere sequence to be formed on their carriers.
The Kan-extension comparison uses Mathlib's Functor.lanAdjunction and
Functor.leftKanExtensionUnique.
References #
- B. Day, On closed categories of functors, Reports of the Midwest Category Seminar IV, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 137 (1970), 1–38.
Tensoring on the left in a lawful Day presentation is external product followed by left Kan extension, after passing to underlying functors.
Instances For
The Kan-extension comparison respects the universal convolution maps.
The Kan-extension comparison respects the universal convolution maps.
The inverse Kan-extension comparison recovers the universal convolution maps.
The inverse Kan-extension comparison recovers the universal convolution maps.
A lawful Day convolution preserves colimits on the left when its interpretation preserves and reflects them, and the tensor product in the value category preserves them on the left.