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An $\mathcal{O}$-monoidal Grothendieck construction

Category Theory 2024-04-02 v1

Abstract

Given an operad O\mathcal{O}, we define a notion of weak O\mathcal{O}-monoids -- which we term O\mathcal{O}-pseudomonoids -- in a 2-category. In the special case with the 2-category in question is the 2-category Cat\mathsf{Cat} of categories, this yields a notion of O\mathcal{O}-monoidal category, which in the case of the associative and commutative operads retrieves unbiased notions of monoidal and symmetric monoidal categories, respectively. We carefully unpack the definition of O\mathcal{O}-monoids in the 2-categories of discrete fibrations and of category-indexed sets. Using the classical Grothendieck construction, we thereby obtain an O\mathcal{O}-monoidal Grothendieck construction relating lax O\mathcal{O}-monoidal functors into Set to strict O\mathcal{O}-monoidal functors which are also discrete fibrations.

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@article{arxiv.2404.01031,
  title  = {An $\mathcal{O}$-monoidal Grothendieck construction},
  author = {Redi Haderi and Walker H. Stern},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01031},
  year   = {2024}
}

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37 pages. Comments welcome

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