Exercise 2-82

Prove that a symmetric monoidal preorder is closed iff, given any \(v \in V\), the map \(V \xrightarrow{(-\otimes v)}V\) given by multiply with v has a right adjoint. We write this adjoint \(V \xrightarrow{(v \multimap -)}V\):

  1. Show that \(V \xrightarrow{(-\otimes v)}V\) is monotone.

  2. Supposing that \(\mathcal{V}\) is closed, show that \(\forall v,w \in V: ((v \multimap w)\otimes v) \leq w\)

  3. Show that \((v \multimap -)\) is monotone.

  4. Conclude that a symmetric monoidal preorder is closed iff the monotone map \((- \otimes v)\) has a right adjoint.

Solution(1)
    • Given the monotonicity constraint of \(\otimes\)

    • And reflexivity: \(v \leq v\), we have:

    • \(x_1 \leq y_1\) implies that \((x_1 \otimes v) \leq (y_1 \otimes v)\)

  1. Substitute \(v \multimap w\) for \(a\) into the closed property equation, to get \(((v \multimap w)\otimes v) \leq w \iff v \multimap w \leq v \multimap w\) (the RHS is true by reflexivity, so the LHS must be true).

  2. Need to show: if we assume \(x \leq y\) then we can conclude \((v \multimap x) \leq (v \multimap y)\)

    • From the previous part, we have \((v \multimap x) \otimes v \leq x\) and \((v \multimap y) \otimes v \leq y\)

    • Assuming the antecedant \(x \leq y\), and given transitivity, we have \((v \multimap x) \otimes v \leq (v \multimap y) \otimes v\)

    • Because the \(\otimes\) operation must be monotonic, the consequent follows.

  3. A Galois connection requires that both maps be monotone and that they satisfy \(f(p)\leq q\) iff \(p \leq g(q)\). This is the relation captured by the closed property equation, and both maps were shown to be monotone.