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The parametric continuation monad†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2015

PAUL-ANDRÉ MELLIÈS
PAUL-ANDRÉ MELLIÈS*
Affiliation:
CNRS, Laboratoire PPS, UMR 7126, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris, France Email: mellies@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr
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Abstract

Every dialogue category comes equipped with a continuation monad defined by applying the negation functor twice. In this paper, we advocate that this double negation monad should be understood as part of a larger parametric monad (or a lax action) with parameter taken in the opposite of the dialogue category. This alternative point of view has one main conceptual benefit: it reveals that the strength of the continuation monad is the fragment of a more fundamental and symmetric structure – provided by a distributivity law between the parametric continuation monad and the canonical action of the dialogue category over itself. The purpose of this work is to describe the formal properties of this parametric continuation monad and of its distributivity law.

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Dedicated to Corrado Böhm, on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

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