Gabi-Monads
arXiv:2607.27846
The paper develops the theory of gabi‑monads on skew‑closed categories, providing a reconstruction theorem that relates these monads to skew‑closed structures on their Eilenberg–Moore categories, and explores connections to closed and Hopf monads with several concrete examples.
Abstract
We study gabi-monads on skew-closed categories, extending the gabi-algebras of Berger, the second author, and Vercruysse beyond the linear case. Our main reconstruction theorem identifies gabi-monad structures on a monad with skew-closed structures on its Eilenberg--Moore category for which the canonical forgetful functor is strict closed. We compare this notion with closed monads in the sense of Kock, showing that in representation-theoretic cases these notions are quite different. On closed monoidal categories, every left Hopf monad is a normal gabi-monad, but the converse fails in general. We characterise when a gabi-monad is Hopf by the invertibility of the corresponding parametric mates, which recovers the ring-theoretic result that normal gabi-algebras over a commutative base ring are Hopf algebras. The theory of gabi-monads admits several natural examples, such as torsion-free modules, reflexive digraphs, and simplicial complexes, that we will explore in detail; we also study pointed sets as a quasi-example.
61 pages, lots of figures; comments very welcome!