Following the pattern from linear logic, the coKleisli category of a differential category is a Cartesian differential category. What then is the coEilenberg-Moore category of a differential category? The answer is a tangent category! A key example arises from the opposite of the category of Abelian groups with the free exponential modality. The coEilenberg-Moore category, in this case, is the opposite of the category of commutative rings. That the latter is a tangent category captures a fundamental aspect of both algebraic geometry and Synthetic Differential Geometry. The general result applies when there are no negatives and thus encompasses examples arising from combinatorics and computer science.
@InProceedings{cockett_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2020.17, author = {Cockett, Robin and Lemay, Jean-Simon Pacaud and Lucyshyn-Wright, Rory B. B.}, title = {{Tangent Categories from the Coalgebras of Differential Categories}}, booktitle = {28th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2020)}, pages = {17:1--17:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-132-0}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {152}, editor = {Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel and Muscholl, Anca}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2020.17}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-116607}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2020.17}, annote = {Keywords: Differential categories, Tangent categories, Coalgebra Modalities} }
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