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Friday, April 25, 2014

Monoidal closed categories and extraordinary naturality

Consider a monoidal closed category, with objects and the labeled arrows as in any of the three diagrams below
(the only differences between them are (affine transformations, a reflection, a horizontal shear and a rotation) on the diagrams).
The unlabeled arrows should be understood to be either
(unnamed variables) of (the specified source-target type), or, alternatively,
[the hom objects, e.g. [AB]] determined by (the source and target of (the unlabeled arrows)).
ABABAfAfhreflectionfhh.s. and rotationABABBhB
In such a situation, we have the following commutative cubical diagram:
1234561AagA[AB]A[fB]afgA[AB]2ff[AB]feB=UAeB3AafgA[AB]AeBafgB4A[Ah]A[fh]=BA[Ah]5f[Ah]=LfehAeh=R6A[Ah]Aeh=Fh7aghA[AB]A[fB]afghA[AB]8f[AB]feB=DAeB9afghA[AB]AeBafghB

The boxes (other than those enclosing the eight vertices of the cube) have the following meanings:
A single box, e.g. [fB], denotes an arrow determined by the universal condition on a universal arrow, AeB in this case.
A double box, e.g. feB=U, denotes a commuting square = commuting face of the cube;
we use “Rubik’s cube” abbreviations to designate the faces of the cube: Up/Down, Left/Right, Front/Back.
The triple box, feh, denotes the total cube determined by f and h.

The commutative squares (faces of the cube) labeled Aeh=F and Aeh=R
define the covariant arrows [Ah] and [Ah], and then witness the ordinary naturality of e WRT (with respect to) h.
The commutative squares labeled feB=U and feB=D
define the contravariant arrows [fB] and [fB], and then witness the extraordinary naturality of e WRT f.
The commutativity of f[Ah]=L is simply because is a bifunctor.
The commutativity of the [fh] square (a -factor of the A[fh]=B square)
is determined by the commutativity of the R,U,F,L,D faces, plus the uniqueness clause applied to AeB.
The cube itself, labeled feh, witnesses the joint (simultaneous) naturality of e WRT both f and h.

This is a variation on a diagram in paragraph 1.3.2 of MVFC.

References

MVFC, Max Kelly, “Many-variable functorial calculus”, 1972
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