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Closed symmetric monoidal structures on the category of graphs

Category Theory 2025-12-23 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We show that the category of (reflexive) graphs and graph maps carries exactly two closed symmetric monoidal products: the box product and the categorical product.

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@article{arxiv.2310.00493,
  title  = {Closed symmetric monoidal structures on the category of graphs},
  author = {Chris Kapulkin and Nathan Kershaw},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.00493},
  year   = {2025}
}

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