A unified treatment of commuting tensor products of categories, operads, symmetric multicategories and their bimodules

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Main Authors: Gambino, Nicola, Garner, Richard, Vasilakopoulou, Christina
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Published: 2025
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author Gambino, Nicola
Garner, Richard
Vasilakopoulou, Christina
author_facet Gambino, Nicola
Garner, Richard
Vasilakopoulou, Christina
contents We provide a unified treatment of several commuting tensor products considered in the literature, including the tensor product of enriched categories and the Boardman-Vogt tensor product of operads and symmetric multicategories, subsuming work of Elmendorf and Mandell. We then show how a commuting tensor product extends to bimodules, generalising results of Dwyer and Hess. In particular, we construct a double category of symmetric multicategories, symmetric multifunctors and bimodules and show that it admits a symmetric oplax monoidal structure. These applications are obtained as instances of a general construction of commuting tensor products on double categories of monads, monad morphisms and bimodules.
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spellingShingle A unified treatment of commuting tensor products of categories, operads, symmetric multicategories and their bimodules
Gambino, Nicola
Garner, Richard
Vasilakopoulou, Christina
Category Theory
18N10, 18N15, 18M80, 18M05
We provide a unified treatment of several commuting tensor products considered in the literature, including the tensor product of enriched categories and the Boardman-Vogt tensor product of operads and symmetric multicategories, subsuming work of Elmendorf and Mandell. We then show how a commuting tensor product extends to bimodules, generalising results of Dwyer and Hess. In particular, we construct a double category of symmetric multicategories, symmetric multifunctors and bimodules and show that it admits a symmetric oplax monoidal structure. These applications are obtained as instances of a general construction of commuting tensor products on double categories of monads, monad morphisms and bimodules.
title A unified treatment of commuting tensor products of categories, operads, symmetric multicategories and their bimodules
topic Category Theory
18N10, 18N15, 18M80, 18M05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14402