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From: Alex Hoffnung <alex@math.ucr.edu>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Enrichment over a monoidal bicategory
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:10:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1M6mBv-0001Tr-GR@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

Hi

I have found that there is a fairly straightforward way to generalize
the notion of enrichment over a monoidal category to enrichment over a
monoidal bicategory.  Namely, a "bicategory enriched over a monoidal
bicategory V" consists of the following:

1) a collection of "objects" A, B, C,...

2) for any pair of objects A,B, an object in V called hom(A,B)

3) for any triple of objects A,B,C a morphism in V called composition:
hom(A,B) tensor hom(B,C) -> hom(A,C)
where "tensor" is the tensor product in V.

4) for any object A a morphism in V called identity: I_A -> hom(A,A)

5) for any quadruple of objects A,B,C,D a 2-isomorphism in V called
the associator, which does the obvious thing.

plus left and right unitors, and so on with all the axioms closely
following those of the definition of a bicategory.

I am looking to be pointed in the right direction in the literature.
Can anyone help?  I am aware of the fc-multicategories by Leinster and
earlier work by Walters, but those do not seem to use the monoidal
structure to enrich as I want.

Best,
Alex Hoffnung




             reply	other threads:[~2009-05-20  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-20  3:10 Alex Hoffnung [this message]
2009-05-20 14:12 Richard Garner
2009-05-21  3:52 Steve Lack

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