Płonka Adjunction
Juan Climent Vidal, Enric Cosme Llópez
Abstract
For a signature $Σ$ and its subsignature $Σ^{\neq 0}$ without $0$-ary operation symbols, we prove (1) that there are strong Lawvere adjoint cylinders between the category $\mathsf{Ssl}$, of sup-semilattices, and the categories $\int^{\mathsf{Ssl}}\mathrm{Isys}_Σ$, of sup-semilattice inductive systems of $Σ$-algebras, and $\int^{\mathsf{Ssl}}\mathrm{Isys}_{Σ^{\neq 0}}$, of sup-semilattice inductive systems of $Σ^{\neq 0}$-algebras; (2) that there exists an adjunction between $\mathsf{Ssl}$ and the category $\mathsf{Alg}(Σ^{\neq 0})$, of $Σ^{\neq 0}$-algebras; (3) that there exists an adjunction between the categories $\mathsf{Ssl}$ and $\mathsf{Lnb}$, the category of left normal bands; (4) after defining and stating several technical results on the category $\mbox{\sffamily{\upshape{PłAlg}}}(Σ^{\neq 0})$, of Płonka $Σ^{\neq 0}$-algebras, and defining functors $J_{Σ^{\neq 0}}$ from $\mbox{\sffamily{\upshape{PłAlg}}}(Σ^{\neq 0})$ to $\mathsf{Alg}(Σ^{\neq 0})\otimes\mathsf{Lnb}$, the tensor product of $\mathsf{Alg}(Σ^{\neq 0})$ and $\mathsf{Lnb}$, and $P_{Σ^{\neq 0}}$ from $\mathsf{Alg}(Σ^{\neq 0})\otimes\mathsf{Lnb}$ to $\mathsf{Alg}(Σ^{\neq 0})$, we prove that $P_{Σ^{\neq 0}}\circ J_{Σ^{\neq 0}}$ has a left adjoint; finally, (5) after defining a functor $\mathrm{Is}_{Σ^{\neq 0}}$ from $\mbox{\sffamily{\upshape{PłAlg}}}(Σ^{\neq 0})$ to $\int^{\mathsf{Ssl}}\mathrm{Isys}_{Σ^{\neq 0}}$ we prove the main result of this paper: that $\mathrm{Is}_{Σ^{\neq 0}}$ has a left adjoint $\mbox{\upshape{Pł}}_{Σ^{\neq 0}}$, which is the Płonka sum.
