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Context

2-Category theory

2-category theory

Structures on 2-categories

Monoidal categories

monoidal categories

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Definition

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

$F(x \otimes G y) \to F x \otimes y$
$F(G y \otimes x) \to y \otimes F x$

are isomorphisms for any $x\in C$ and $y\in D$.

Of course, if $C$, $D$, $F$, and $G$ are symmetric, then it suffices to ask for one of these. If $C$ and $D$ are moreover cartesian monoidal, then any adjunction is comonoidal, and the condition is also (mis?)named Frobenius reciprocity.

Properties

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

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

References

• Alain Bruguières, Steve Lack, Alexis Virelizier, Hopf monads on monoidal categories, Adv. Math. 227 No. 2, June 2011, pp 745–800, arxiv/0812.2443

• Adriana Balan, On Hopf adjunctions, Hopf monads and Frobenius-type properties, Appl. Categ. Structures 25 (2017), no. 5, 747–774. arxiv

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