Promoting a monoidal category to a single object bicategory. #
A monoidal category can be thought of as a bicategory with a single object.
The objects of the monoidal category become the 1-morphisms, with composition given by tensor product, and the morphisms of the monoidal category become the 2-morphisms.
We verify that the endomorphisms of that single object recovers the original monoidal category.
One could go much further: the bicategory of monoidal categories (equipped with monoidal functors and monoidal natural transformations) is equivalent to the bicategory consisting of
- single object bicategories,
- pseudofunctors, and
- (oplax) natural transformations
η
such thatη.app Unit.unit = 𝟙 _
.
Promote a monoidal category to a bicategory with a single object. (The objects of the monoidal category become the 1-morphisms, with composition given by tensor product, and the morphisms of the monoidal category become the 2-morphisms.)
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The unique object in the bicategory obtained by "promoting" a monoidal category.
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The monoidal functor from the endomorphisms of the single object when we promote a monoidal category to a single object bicategory, to the original monoidal category.
We subsequently show this is an equivalence.
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The equivalence between the endomorphisms of the single object when we promote a monoidal category to a single object bicategory, and the original monoidal category.