The centre of a monoidal category is a braided monoidal category. Monoidal categories are monoidal objects (or pseudomonoids) in the monoidal bicategory of categories. This paper provides a universal construction in a braided monoidal bicategory that produces a braided monoidal object from any monoidal object. Some properties and sufficient conditions for existence of the construction are exami...

1 Monoidal ∞-Categories 4 1.1 Monoidal Structures and Algebra Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Cartesian Monoidal Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3 Subcategories of Monoidal ∞-Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1.4 Free Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

1 Monoidal ∞-Categories 4 1.1 Monoidal Structures and Algebra Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Cartesian Monoidal Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3 Subcategories of Monoidal ∞-Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1.4 Free Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

1 Monoidal ∞-Categories 4 1.1 Monoidal Structures and Algebra Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Cartesian Monoidal Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3 Subcategories of Monoidal ∞-Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1.4 Free Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Let C be a full-dimensional pointed closed convex cone in R obtained by taking the conic hull of a strictly convex set. Given A ∈ Qm×n1 , B ∈ Qm×n2 and b ∈ Q, a simple conic mixed-integer set (SCMIS) is a set of the form {(x, y) ∈ Z1 ×R2 | Ax+By− b ∈ C}. In this paper, we give a complete characterization of the closedness of convex hulls of SCMISs. Under certain technical conditions on the cone...

In this paper we reconsider the question of when the continuous linear image of a closed convex cone is closed in Euclidean space. In particular, we show that although it is not true that the closedness of the image is preserved under small perturbations of the linear mappings it is “almost” true that the closedness of the image is preserved under small perturbations, in the sense that, for “al...

The closedness type regularity conditions have proven during the last decade to be viable alternatives to their more restrictive interiority type counterparts, in both convex optimization and different areas where it was successfully applied. In this review article we deand reconstruct some closedness type regularity conditions formulated by means of epigraphs and subdifferentials, respectively...

Graded monoidal categories were introduced by Frohlich and C.T.C. ̈ Wall in 8 , where they presented a suitable abstract setting to study the Brauer group in equivariant situations. This paper is concerned with the analysis and classification of these graded monoidal categories, following a parallel treatment to that made in 2 for the non-monoidal case. In any graded monoidal category, its 1-com...

Mourgues and Ressayre [10] showed that any real closed field is isomorphic to a truncation closed subfield of a Hahn field over R. The papers [5, 6, 7, 4] continue the study of truncation closedness. The results are typically that truncation closedness is robust in the sense of being preserved under a variety of extensions. One significance of truncation closedness is that it enables transfinit...