Let SMC denote the 2-category with objects small symmetric monoidal categories, 1cells symmetric monoidal functors and 2-cells monoidal natural transformations. It is shown that the category quotient of SMC by the congruence generated by its 2-cells is symmetric monoidal closed. 1 Summary of results Thomason’s famous result claims that symmetric monoidal categories model all connective spectra ...

Graded monoidal categories were introduced by Frohlich and C.T.C. ̈ Wall in 8 , where they presented a suitable abstract setting to study the Brauer group in equivariant situations. This paper is concerned with the analysis and classification of these graded monoidal categories, following a parallel treatment to that made in 2 for the non-monoidal case. In any graded monoidal category, its 1-com...

The equivalence between a monoidal category and a strict one has been proved by some authors such as Nguyen Duy Thuan [8], Christian Kassel [2], Peter Schauenburg [7]. In this paper, we show another proof of the problem by constructing a strict monoidal category M(C) consisting of M -functors and M morphisms of a category C and we prove C is equivalent to it. The proof is based on a basic chara...

We exhibit sufficient conditions for a monoidal monad T on a monoidal category C to induce a monoidal structure on the Eilenberg–Moore category CT that represents bimorphisms. The category of actions in CT is then shown to be monadic over the base category C.

We exhibit sufficient conditions for a monoidal monad T on a monoidal category C to induce a monoidal structure on the Eilenberg–Moore category CT that represents bimorphisms. The category of actions in CT is then shown to be monadic over the base category C.

We investigate limits in the 2-category of strict algebras and lax morphisms for a 2-monad. This includes both the 2-category of monoidal categories and monoidal functors as well as the 2-category of monoidal categories and opomonoidal functors, among many other examples.

In this paper, it is shown that the category of stratified $L$-generalized convergence spaces is monoidal closed if the underlying truth-value table $L$ is a complete residuated lattice. In particular, if the underlying truth-value table $L$ is a complete Heyting Algebra, the Cartesian closedness of the category is recaptured by our result.

We discuss and compare the notions of braided and coboundary monoidal categories. Coboundary monoidal categories are analogues of braided monoidal categories in which the role of the braid group is replaced by the cactus group. We focus on the categories of representations of quantum groups and crystals and explain how while the former is a braided monoidal category, this structure does not pas...

In [2] Baez and Dolan established their stabilization hypothesis as one of a list of the key properties that a good theory of higher categories should have. It is the analogue for n-categories of the well-known stabilization theorems in homotopy theory. To explain the statement, recall that Baez-Dolan introduce the notion of k-uply monoidal n-category which is an n+ k-category having only one i...

It was argued by Crans that it is too much to ask that the category of Gray-categories admit a well behaved monoidal biclosed structure. We make this precise by establishing undesirable properties that any such monoidal biclosed structure must have. In particular we show that there does not exist any tensor product making the model category of Gray-categories into a monoidal model category.