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The monoidal centre as a limit

Category Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The centre of a monoidal category is a braided monoidal category. Monoidal categories are monoidal objects (or pseudomonoids) in the monoidal bicategory of categories. This paper provides a universal construction in a braided monoidal bicategory that produces a braided monoidal object from any monoidal object. Some properties and sufficient conditions for existence of the construction are examined.

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@article{arxiv.math/0304053,
  title  = {The monoidal centre as a limit},
  author = {Ross Street},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0304053},
  year   = {2007}
}

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