The formal theory of monads II
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Stephen Lack; Ross Street
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We give an explicit description of the free completion EM(K) of a 2-category K under the Eilenberg-Moore construction, and show that this has the same underlying category as the 2-category Mnd(K) of monads in K. We then demonstrate that much of the formal theory of monads can be deduced using only t