The optic interpretation of c-lenses

Let Cat\mathbf{Cat} denote the category of categories. A c-lens is the categorical lens notion defined by functors \textscGet:SA\textsc{Get}:S\to A and \textscPut:(\textscGetidA)S\textsc{Put}:(\textsc{Get}\downarrow\mathrm{id}_A)\to S satisfying the c-lens laws. An optic is called lawful when it satisfies the corresponding optic laws, and it may be mixed when its source and target categories differ.

C-lens optic conjecture. C-lenses are the lawful, possibly mixed optics for some action on Cat\mathbf{Cat}.

The preceding theorem identifies c-lens data with a functor into a Grothendieck construction and characterizes lawful c-lenses as coalgebras for a comonad. The conjecture proposes an action on Cat\mathbf{Cat} that realizes this description as concrete optics, although the paper notes that no natural location for the additional category AA' is currently apparent.

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Mitchell Riley, “Categories of Optics”, arXiv:1809.00738 (2018).

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