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The 2-category V-Cat of categories enriched over a braided monoidal category V is not itself braided in any way that is based upon the braiding of V. The exception is the case in which V is symmetric, which leads to V-Cat being symmetric as…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Forcey

We construct a (lax) Gray tensor product of $(\infty,2)$-categories and characterize it via a model-independent universal property. Namely, it is the unique monoidal biclosed structure on the $\infty$-category of $(\infty,2)$-categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Timothy Campion , Yuki Maehara

This article shows that the units of a skew monoidal category are unique up to a unique isomorphism, and internalises this fact to skew monoidales. Some benefits of certain extra structure on the unit maps are also discussed before the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Jim Andrianopoulos

We provide a definition of enrichment that applies to a wide variety of categorical structures, generalizing Leinster's theory of enriched $T$-multicategories. As a sample of newly enrichable structures, we describe in detail the examples…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Brandon Shapiro

In this paper we introduce a strict monoidal subcategory of the category of matrices, suitable to address a higher representation theoretic analogue of radicals (non-semisimplicity) in ordinary representation theory. We show the extent to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Paul P Martin , Sarah Almateari , Eric C Rowell

Skew monoidal categories are monoidal categories with non-invertible `coherence' morphisms. As shown in a previous paper bialgebroids over a ring R can be characterized as the closed skew monoidal structures on the category Mod R in which…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-30 K. Szlachanyi

The Day Reflection Theorem gives conditions under which a reflective subcategory of a closed monoidal category can be equipped with a closed monoidal structure in such a way that the reflection adjunction becomes a monoidal adjunction. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Stephen Lack , Ross Street

The basic data for a skew-monoidal category are the same as for a monoidal category, except that the constraint morphisms are no longer required to be invertible. The constraints are given a specific orientation and satisfy Mac Lane's five…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Mitchell Buckley , Richard Garner , Stephen Lack , Ross Street

We extend the theory of Sweeder's measuring comonoids to the framework of duoidal categories: categories equipped with two compatible monoidal structures. We use one of the tensor products to endow the category of monoids for the other with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Ignacio López Franco , Christina Vasilakopoulou

One of the open problems in higher category theory is the systematic construction of the higher dimensional analogues of the Gray tensor product. In this paper we continue the work of [7] to adapt the machinery of globular operads [4] to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-21 Michael Batanin , Denis-Charles Cisinski , Mark Weber

We analyse compatibility between monads and monoidal structures in the two-dimensional setting. We describe sufficient conditions for monoidal structures to lift to the Eilenberg-Moore pseudoalgebras. We then extend these results to braids,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Adrian Miranda

We show that the semi-strictly generated internal homs of $\mathbf{Gray}$-categories $[\mathfrak{A}, \mathfrak{B}]_\text{ssg}$ defined in \cite{Miranda strictifying operational coherences} underlie a closed structure on the category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Adrian Miranda

Lyubashenko has described enriched 2-categories as categories enriched over V-Cat, the 2-category of categories enriched over a symmetric monoidal V. I have generalized this to the k-fold monoidal V. The symmetric case can easily be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Forcey

We construct a symmetric monoidal category $LIE^{MC}$ whose objects are shifted L-infinity algebras equipped with a complete descending filtration. Morphisms of this category are "enhanced" infinity morphisms between shifted L-infinity…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Vasily A. Dolgushev , Christopher L. Rogers

We introduce semidirect products of skew monoidal categories as a categorification of semidirect products of monoids (or, perhaps more familiarly, of groups). We also discuss how this construction interacts with monoidal, autonomous and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Ben Fuller

Applied category theory often studies symmetric monoidal categories (SMCs) whose morphisms represent open systems. These structures naturally accommodate complex wiring patterns, leveraging (co)monoidal structures for splitting and merging…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Marius Furter , Yujun Huang , Gioele Zardini

We observe that the existence of sequential and parallel composition supermaps in higher order theories of transformations can be formalised using enriched category theory. Encouraged by relevant examples such as unitary supermaps and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Matt Wilson , Giulio Chiribella

A linear Gr-category is a category of finite-dimensional vector spaces graded by a finite group together with natural tensor product. We classify the braided monoidal structures of a class of linear Gr-categories via explicit computations…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-05-19 Hua-Lin Huang , Gongxiang Liu , Yu Ye

We propose a recursive definition of V-n-categories and their morphisms. We show that for V k-fold monoidal the structure of a (k-n)-fold monoidal strict (n+1)-category is possessed by V-n-Cat. This article is a completion of the work begun…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Forcey

We decribe the correspondence between normalised $\omega$-operads and certain lax monoidal structures on the category of globular sets. As with ordinary monoidal categories, one has a notion of category enriched in a lax monoidal category.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-26 Michael Batanin , Mark Weber