Symmetric monoidal closed objects
I conjecture that there’s a compact closed bicategory Th(SMCC) such that the 2-category hom(Th(SMCC), Prof) of
- sylleptic monoidal functors (of bicategories),
- braided monoidal transformations and
- monoidal modifications
is equivalent as a 2-category to the 2-category SMCC of
- symmetric monoidal closed categories,
- braided monoidal closed functors, and
- monoidal closed natural isomorphisms.
If we model Th(SMCC) in the compact closed bicategory 3Cob2, then we get
where I didn’t draw
- the right unitor
- the pentagon equation for the associator
- the triangle equations for the unitors
- the hexagon equations for the braiding
- the yanking for internal hom
- a,b,c,l,r composed with their formal inverses equals the identity
but I think they’re pretty obvious given this other stuff.
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