English

Hopf measuring comonoids and enrichment

Category Theory 2018-09-24 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We study the existence of universal measuring comonoids P(A,B)P(A,B) for a pair of monoids AA, BB in a braided monoidal closed category, and the associated enrichment of a category of monoids over the monoidal category of comonoids. In symmetric categories, we show that if AA is a bimonoid and BB is a commutative monoid, then P(A,B)P(A,B) is a bimonoid; in addition, if AA is a cocommutative Hopf monoid then P(A,B)P(A,B) always is Hopf. If AA is a Hopf monoid, not necessarily cocommutative, then P(A,B)P(A,B) is Hopf if the fundamental theorem of comodules holds; to prove this we give an alternative description of the dualizable P(A,B)P(A,B)-comodules and use the theory of Hopf (co)monads. We explore the examples of universal measuring comonoids in vector spaces and graded spaces.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.07632,
  title  = {Hopf measuring comonoids and enrichment},
  author = {Martin Hyland and Ignacio Lopez Franco and Christina Vasilakopoulou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.07632},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

30 pages. Version 2: re-arrangement of material; expansion of previous section 6, splitting into current sections 6,7,8; fix of graded algebras example, section 11; appendix removed; other minor fixes and edits

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