A skew-duoidal Eckmann-Hilton argument and quantum categories

DOI10.1007/S10485-013-9356-1MaRDI QIDQ2254583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stephen Lack, Ross H. Street

Publication date 5 February 2015

Published in Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8192

zbMATH Keywords

bialgebroidcomonoidduoidal categoryduoidalefusion operatorHopf monadmonoidal bicategorymonoidalequantum categoryskew-monoidal category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coalgebras and comodules; corings (16T15) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Quantum groups (quantized function algebras) and their representations (20G42) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

Abstract: A general result relating skew monoidal structures and monads is proved. This is applied to quantum categories and bialgebroids. Ordinary categories are monads in the bicategory whose morphisms are spans between sets. Quantum categories were originally defined as monoidal comonads on endomorphism objects in a particular monoidal bicategory M. Then they were shown also to be skew monoidal structures (with an appropriate unit) on objects in M. Now we see in what kind of M quantum categories are merely monads.

Review text

This paper establishes an equivalence between opmonoidal monads on a lax-braided monoidal category and certain skew duoidal structures. This result can be viewed as skew version of the Eckmann-Hilton argument and its generalizations. As an application, the authors characterize quantum categories as monads in certain monoidal bicategories.

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• Skew monoidal categories and skew multicategories
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