nLab Hopf adjunction

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Context

2-Category theory

Monoidal categories

monoidal categories

With braiding

With duals for objects

With duals for morphisms

With traces

Closed structure

Special sorts of products

Semisimplicity

Morphisms

Internal monoids

Examples

Theorems

In higher category theory

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Definition

Let CC and DD be monoidal categories, and F:CD:GF \,\colon\, C \rightleftarrows D \,\colon\, G a comonoidal adjunction, i.e. an adjunction FGF\dashv G in the 2-category of colax monoidal functors. (By doctrinal adjunction, this is actually equivalent to requiring that GG is a strong monoidal functor.) This adjunction is a Hopf adjunction if the canonical morphisms

F(xGy)Fxy F(x \otimes G y) \longrightarrow F x \otimes y
F(Gyx)yFx F(G y \otimes x) \longrightarrow y \otimes F x

are isomorphisms for any xCx\in C and yDy\in D.

Of course, if CC, DD, FF, and GG are symmetric, then it suffices to ask for one of these. If CC and DD are moreover cartesian monoidal, then any adjunction is comonoidal, and the condition is also (mis?)named Frobenius reciprocity.

Properties

  • If CC and DD are closed, then by the calculus of mates, saying that FGF\dashv G is Hopf is equivalent to asking that GG be a closed monoidal functor, i.e. preserve internal-homs up to isomorphism.

  • If FGF\dashv G is a Hopf adjunction, then its induced monad GFG F is a Hopf monad. Conversely, the Eilenberg-Moore adjunction of a Hopf monad is a Hopf adjunction.

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