nLab strict monoidal category

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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

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In higher category theory

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Definition

A monoidal category is strict if its associator and left/right unitors are identity natural transformations.

Very explicitely, it means that:

Definition

A strict monoidal category is a category ๐’ž\mathcal{C} equipped with an object 1โˆˆ๐’ž1 \in \mathcal{C} and a bifunctor โŠ—:๐’žร—๐’žโ†’๐’ž\otimes:\mathcal{C} \times \mathcal{C} \rightarrow \mathcal{C} such that for every objects A,B,CA,B,C and morphisms f,g,hf,g,h, we have:

  • (AโŠ—B)โŠ—C=AโŠ—(BโŠ—C)(A \otimes B) \otimes C = A \otimes (B \otimes C)
  • 1โŠ—A=A1 \otimes A = A
  • AโŠ—1=AA \otimes 1 = A
  • (fโŠ—g)โŠ—h=fโŠ—(gโŠ—h)(f \otimes g) \otimes h = f \otimes (g \otimes h)
  • Id 1โŠ—f=fId_{1} \otimes f = f
  • fโŠ—Id 1=ff \otimes Id_{1} = f

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