Duoidal R-Matrices

Abstract

In this note, we define an analogue of R-matrices for bialgebras in the setting of a monad that is opmonoidal over two tensor products. Analogous to the classical case, such structures bijectively correspond to duoidal structures on the Eilenberg--Moore category of the monad. Further, we investigate how a cocommutative version of this lifts the linearly distributive structure of a normal duoidal category.

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