Local presentability and monadicity of forgetful functors for operator algebraic categories

TL;DR

This paper extends the understanding of local presentability and monadicity in categories related to operator algebras, providing new results for non-complete operator spaces, systems, and order unit spaces.

Contribution

It generalizes previous results to non-complete categories and analyzes forgetful functors and monadicity across multiple operator algebraic categories.

Findings

Categories of operator systems and order unit spaces are locally countably presentable.

Complete understanding of adjunctions and monadicity for forgetful functors.

Analysis of subcategories via Kadison's duality theorem.

Abstract

In recent work of Lindenhovius and Zamdzhiev, it was established that the category of complete operator spaces, with completely contractive linear maps as morphisms, is locally countably presentable. In this work, we extend their conclusion to the non-complete setting and prove that the categories of operator systems, (Archimedean) order unit spaces, and unital operator algebras are all locally countably presentable as well. This is established through an analysis of forgetful functors and the identification of Eilenberg-Moore categories. We provide a complete understanding of adjunction and monadicity for forgetful functors between these categories, together with the categories of $C^*$-algebras, Banach spaces, and normed spaces. In addition, for various subcategories of function-theoretic objects, we investigate completeness and local presentability through Kadison's duality theorem.