With braiding
With duals for objects
category with duals (list of them)
dualizable object (what they have)
ribbon category, a.k.a. tortile category
With duals for morphisms
monoidal dagger-category?
With traces
Closed structure
Special sorts of products
Semisimplicity
Morphisms
Internal monoids
Examples
Theorems
In higher category theory
A compact closed category, or simply a compact category, is a symmetric monoidal category in which every object is dualizable, hence a rigid symmetric monoidal category.
More generally, if we drop the symmetry requirement, we obtain a rigid monoidal category, a.k.a. an autonomous category. Thus a compact category may also be called a rigid symmetric monoidal category or a symmetric autonomous category. A maximally clear, but rather verbose, term would be a symmetric monoidal category with duals for objects.
A compact closed category is a special case of the notion of compact closed pseudomonoid in a monoidal bicategory, and similarly for the autonomous cases.
A rigid symmetric monoidal category is in particular a closed monoidal category, with the internal hom given by
(where is the dual object of ), via the adjunction natural equivalence that defines dual objects
This is what the terminology โcompact closedโ refers to.
The inclusion from the category of compact closed categories into the category of closed symmetric monoidal categories also has a left adjoint (Day 1977). Given a closed symmetric monoidal category , the free compact closed category over may be described as a localization of by the maps
corresponding to the tensorial strength of the functors .
Given a traced monoidal category , there is a free construction completion of it to a compact closed category [Joyal, Street & Verity 1996]:
the objects of are pairs of objects of , a morphism in is given by a morphism of the form in , and composition of two such morphisms and is given by tracing out and in the evident way.
A compact closed category is a star-autonomous category: the tensor unit is a dualizing object. Thus it is also an isomix category. (But note that, for example, the symmetric monoidal category of sup-lattices is star-autonomous, with dualizing object given by the unit, but not compact closed. In a compact closed category, the dualizing functor is additionally monoidal.)
(finite-dimensional vector spaces)
The category FinDimVect of finite-dimensional vector spaces is compact closed with resoect to the usual tensor product of vector spaces, see there.
(It is not compact closed with the direct sum as monoidal product.)
A compact closed discrete category is just an abelian group.
The delooping of a commutative monoid is a compact closed category, and conversely, any compact closed category (or more generally, any closed monoidal category) with a single object must be isomorphic to the delooping of some commutative monoid.
The characterization of the free compact closed category over a closed symmetric monoidal category is described in
Discussion of coherence in compact closed categories is due to:
On the relation to traced monoidal categories:
See also:
On the relation to quantum operations and completely positive maps:
On biproducts:
On compact closure in homotopical algebra and relating to the Barrat-Priddy theorem:
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