A universal property of the monoidal 2-category of cospans of finite linear orders and surjections

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Authors: Matias Menni, N. Sabadini, R. F. C. Walters 

Publication date: 31 March 2008

Abstract: We prove that the monoidal 2-category of cospans of finite linear orders and surjections is the universal monoidal category with an object X with a semigroup and a cosemigroup structures, where the two structures satisfy a certain 2-dimensional separable algebra condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1393

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monoidal categories2-categoriesstructured objects

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