Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 23 (2016)

Number 5

Day convolution for $\infty$-categories

Pages: 1369 – 1385

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2016.v23.n5.a6

Author

Saul Glasman (Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.)

Abstract

Given symmetric monoidal $\infty$-categories $\mathbb{C}$ and $\mathbb{D}$, subject to mild hypotheses on $\mathbb{D}$, we define an $\infty$-categorical analog of the Day convolution symmetric monoidal structure on the functor category $\mathrm{Fun}(\mathbb{C},\mathbb{D})$. An $\mathbb{E}_{\infty}$ monoid for the Day convolution product is a lax monoidal functor from $\mathbb{C}$ to $\mathbb{D}$.

Accepted 23 March 2015

Published 12 January 2017