Dioperads, Frobenius monoidal functors and duality
Abstract
Motivated by duality phenomena for derived global sections on derived local systems on compact oriented manifolds, we introduce the notion of a -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 . For any enriched dioperad , we define a -twist and prove that, in a -duality context, the right adjoint sends -algebras to -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 -categorical extension of the theory.
Cite
@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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27 pages, comments are welcome