Implication Details
Claim: If a symmetric monoidal category is cartesian and is codistributive, then it is trivial.
Proof: In a codistributive symmetric monoidal category, for every object , the functor preserves the terminal object . But since the symmetric monoidal structure is assumed to be cartesian, is the monoidal unit, so .
Show 9 symmetric monoidal categories using this implication
- symmetric monoidal category of finitely generated abelian groups
- symmetric monoidal category of abelian groups
- cartesian symmetric monoidal category of small categories
- symmetric monoidal category of finite-dimensional vector spaces
- symmetric monoidal category of modules over a commutative ring
- symmetric monoidal category of modules over an absolutely flat commutative ring
- symmetric monoidal category of modules over a non-absolutely flat commutative ring
- cartesian symmetric monoidal category of sets
- cartesian symmetric monoidal category of topological spaces