English

Note on the construction of free monoids

Category Theory 2010-09-10 v2

Abstract

We construct free monoids in a monoidal category with finite limits and countable colimits, in which tensoring on either side preserves reflexive coequalizers and colimits of countable chains.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0802.1946,
  title  = {Note on the construction of free monoids},
  author = {Stephen Lack},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.1946},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

14 pages; in this version a little more detail given in Section 3

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