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Closed Category


A closed category, in the right monoidal sense, is a monoidal category in which tensoring on the right with any object X has a right adjoint functor, written [X,-]. Consequently, morphisms A tensor X->Y correspond naturally to morphisms A->[X,Y]. Eilenberg and Kelly (1966) also define a more general notion of closed category in which hom objects and unit structure are specified directly, without assuming a monoidal product.


See also

Category, Functor, Tensor Category

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References

Eilenberg, S. and Kelly, G. M. "Closed Categories." In Proceedings of the Conference on Categorical Algebra. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 421-562, 1966.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Closed Category." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ClosedCategory.html

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