Cartesian Closed Topological Categories and Tensor Products

The projective tensor product in a category of topologicalR-modules (where R is a topological ring) can be defined in Top, the category of topological spaces, by the same universal property used to define the tensor product of R-modules in Set. In this article, we extend this definition to an arbitrary topological category X and study how the cartesian closedness of X is related to the monoidal closedness of the category of R-module objects in X.