The optic interpretation of c-lenses
The optic interpretation of c-lenses
Let denote the category of categories. A c-lens is the categorical lens notion defined by functors and 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 .
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 that realizes this description as concrete optics, although the paper notes that no natural location for the additional category is currently apparent.
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Mitchell Riley, “Categories of Optics”, arXiv:1809.00738 (2018).
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