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Categorical definition of infinite symmetric product

This seems entirely straightforward unless I'm missing something. For any $n\in\mathbb{N}$, $\Sigma_n$ acts on $X^{\otimes m}$ for any $m\geq n$ (on the first $n$ coordinates), and this action commut …
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Counterexample for associativity of smash product

Building on Fernando's answer, here is a proof that they are not homeomorphic. By Fernando's answer, it suffices to show that if a sequence $(x_k,y_k,n_k)$ converges to the basepoint in $\mathbb{Q}\w …
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Adjointable Abelian Monoidal Functor

Certainly not in general. For instance, let $F$ be the inclusion of the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces (over some fixed field) into the category of all vector spaces. If you want $\ma …
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Does projective imply flat?

I believe the following is a counterexample. Let $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ be closed symmetric monoidal abelian categories such that the unit object $1\in\mathcal{B}$ is projective and let $F:\ …
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