We contribute to the formal theory of pseudomonads, i.e. the analogue for pseudomonads of the formal theory of monads. In particular, we solve a problem posed by Lack by proving that, for every Gray-category K, there is a Gray-category Psm(K) of pseudomonads, pseudomonad morphisms, pseudomonad transformations and pseudomonad modifications in K. We then establish a triequivalence between Psm(K) and the Gray-category of pseudomonads introduced by Marmolejo and give a simpler proof of the equivalence between pseudodistributive laws and liftings of pseudomonads to 2-categories of pseudoalgebras.
Keywords: pseudomonads, distributive laws, Gray-categories
2020 MSC: 18D05, 18C15, 18C20
Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 37, 2021, No. 2, pp 14-56.
Published 2021-01-20.
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