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Dioperads, Frobenius monoidal functors and duality

Category Theory 2026-04-02 v1 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Motivated by duality phenomena for derived global sections on derived local systems on compact oriented manifolds, we introduce the notion of a dd-duality context between symmetric monoidal enriched categories. In this setting, the right adjoint of a symmetric monoidal functor carries compatible lax and colax structures twisted by an invertible object dd. For any enriched dioperad P\mathcal{P}, we define a dd-twist P{d}\mathcal{P}\{d\} and prove that, in a dd-duality context, the right adjoint sends P\mathcal{P}-algebras to P{d}\mathcal{P}\{-d\}-algebras. To achieve this, the key conceptual result is that Frobenius monoidal functors between symmetric monoidal categories are precisely those functors inducing morphisms between the underlying dioperads. We also develop a dioperadic Day convolution, yielding an alternative proof of the main theorem and suggesting an \infty-categorical extension of the theory.

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@article{arxiv.2604.01080,
  title  = {Dioperads, Frobenius monoidal functors and duality},
  author = {Valerio Melani and Hugo Pourcelot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01080},
  year   = {2026}
}

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