Weighted tensor products of Joyal species, graphs, and charades (Q908272)

The main goal of this paper is to lift concepts defined on algebras (or monoids) to concepts defined on monoidal categories (the categorification process). In order to do that, after a section dedicated to review the notions of weighted derivations and Rota-Baxter operators from a categorical perspective, the author presents in the third Section a monoidal structure on the category of graphs in a monoidal additive category. In the following sections is proved that weighted derivational algebras and weighted Rota-Baxter algebras are special monoids and special semigroups, respectively, for this category. Finally, the last sections study a weighted tensor product for species on finite vector spaces. This generalizes the essentially classical tensor product of representations of the general linear groups over a finite field.