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Formal aspects of Gray’s tensor products of 2-categories

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The category of small 2-categories has two monoidal structures due to John Gray: one biclosed and one closed. We propose a formalisation of the construction of the right internal and internal homs of these monoidal structures.

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Research supported by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic under grant LC505.

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Stanculescu, A.E. Formal aspects of Gray’s tensor products of 2-categories. Appl Categor Struct 21, 781–800 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10485-012-9282-7

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