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infinitary distributive

A symmetric monoidal category is called infinitary distributive when its underlying category has coproducts and, for every object $A$, the endofunctor $A \otimes -$ preserves coproducts. There should be no confusion with the closely related notion of an infinitary distributive category as long as we distinguish carefully between a symmetric monoidal category and its underlying category.

• Dual property: infinitary codistributive
• Related properties: cocomplete, distributive
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Relevant implications

• cartesian () implies infinitary distributive
• closed () implies infinitary distributive
• cocomplete implies infinitary distributive
• infinitary codistributive andself-dual implies infinitary distributive
• infinitary distributive andself-dual implies infinitary codistributive
• infinitary distributive implies distributive

Examples

There are 8 symmetric monoidal categories with this property.

• cartesian symmetric monoidal category of sets
• cartesian symmetric monoidal category of small categories
• cartesian symmetric monoidal category of topological spaces
• symmetric monoidal category of abelian groups
• symmetric monoidal category of modules over a commutative ring
• symmetric monoidal category of modules over a non-absolutely flat commutative ring
• symmetric monoidal category of modules over an absolutely flat commutative ring
• trivial symmetric monoidal category

Counterexamples

There are 4 symmetric monoidal categories without this property.

• cocartesian symmetric monoidal category of sets
• symmetric monoidal category of finite-dimensional vector spaces
• symmetric monoidal category of finitely generated abelian groups
• symmetric monoidal poset of natural numbers

Unknown

There are 0 symmetric monoidal categories for which the database has no information on whether they satisfy this property.

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