Enriched duality in double categories II: modules and comodules

Abstract

In this work, we continue the investigation of certain enrichments of dual algebraic structures in monoidal double categories, that was initiated in [Vas19]. First, we re-visit monads and comonads in double categories and establish a tensored and cotensored enrichment of the former in the latter, under general conditions. These include monoidal closedness and local presentability of the double category, notions that are proposed as tools required for our main results, but are of interest in their own right. The natural next step involves categories of the newly introduced modules for monads and comodules for comonads in double categories. After we study their main categorical properties, we establish a tensored and cotensored enrichment of modules in comodules, as well as an enriched fibration structure that involves (co)modules over (co)monads in double categories. Applying this abstract double categorical framework to the setting of V-matrices produces an enrichment of the category of V-enriched modules (fibred over V-categories) in V-enriched comodules (opfibred over V-cocategories), which is the many-object generalization of the respective result for modules (over algebras) and comodules (over coalgebras) in monoidal categories.