Pseudoalgebras and non-canonical isomorphisms

Abstract

Given a pseudomonad $\mathcal{T}$, we prove that a lax $\mathcal{T}$-morphism between pseudoalgebras is a $\mathcal{T}$-pseudomorphism if and only if there is a suitable (possibly non-canonical) invertible $\mathcal{T}$-transformation. This result encompasses several results on \textit{non-canonical isomorphisms}, including Lack's result on normal monoidal functors between braided monoidal categories, since it is applicable in any $2$-category of pseudoalgebras, such as the $2$-categories of monoidal categories, cocomplete categories, pseudofunctors and so on.

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