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SUMMARY:A 2-dimensional bifunctor theorem - Graham Manuell
DTSTART:20201117T141500Z
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CONTACT:José Siqueira
DESCRIPTION:The Bifunctor Theorem appears as the first proposition in Cate
 gories for the Working Mathematician and gives conditions for when two fam
 ilies of functors can be combined into a bifunctor. This prompts us to con
 sider an analogous result for pseudofunctors (or lax functors) between 2-c
 ategories. We will find that both distributive laws of monads and braiding
 s of monoidal categories appear as special cases. I will also include a br
 ief introduction to string diagrams\, distributive laws and lax functors.\
 nThis is based on joint work with Peter Faul and José Siqueira.
LOCATION:Zoom (Meeting ID 916 7928 3736\, passcode 844306)
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