A Note on Strict Commutativity of a Monoidal Product

Youngsoo Kim

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A Note on Strict Commutativity of a Monoidal Product

Youngsoo Kim

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Journal (Volume 5, Issue 5)

Received: 25 August 2016 Accepted: 5 September 2016 Published: 21 September 2016

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Abstract

It is well known that a monoidal category is (monoidally) equivalent to a strict monoidal category that is a monoidal category with a strictly associative product. In this article, we discuss strict commutativity and prove a necessary and sufficient condition for a symmetric monoidal category to be equivalent to another symmetric monoidal category with a strictly commutative monoidal product.

Published in	Pure and Applied Mathematics Journal (Volume 5, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.pamj.20160505.13
Page(s)	155-159
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Symmetric Monoidal Category, Strict Commutativity, Monoidal Product

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Youngsoo Kim

Department of Mathematics, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, USA

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