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Rig category
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In category theory, a rig category (also known as bimonoidal category or 2-rig) is a category equipped with two monoidal structures, one distributing over the other.
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A rig category is given by a category equipped with:
- a symmetric monoidal structure
- a monoidal structure
- distributing natural isomorphisms: and
- annihilating (or absorbing) natural isomorphisms: and
Those structures are required to satisfy a number of coherence conditions.[1][2]
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Examples
- Set, the category of sets with the disjoint union as and the cartesian product as . Such categories where the multiplicative monoidal structure is the categorical product and the additive monoidal structure is the coproduct are called distributive categories.
- Vect, the category of vector spaces over a field, with the direct sum as and the tensor product as .
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Strictification
Requiring all isomorphisms involved in the definition of a rig category to be strict does not give a useful definition, as it implies an equality which signals a degenerate structure. However it is possible to turn most of the isomorphisms involved into equalities.[1]
A rig category is semi-strict if the two monoidal structures involved are strict, both of its annihilators are equalities and one of its distributors is an equality. Any rig category is equivalent to a semi-strict one.[3]
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