Nomenclature question
Hello all, is there a name in the literature for a category C equipped with a product functor #: C x C ---> C satisfying *no* axioms? This is a magma object in Cat, but calling 'magma category' seems at risk of confusion. A name that occurred to me is 'magmoidal category', as a portmanteau of 'magma' and 'monoidal category'. Such a category can be further equipped with diagonals, hence a natural transformation id_C => # \Delta_C, for \Delta_C: C --> C x C. Magmoidal categories with diagonals cropped up as a natural minimal requirements for a particular proof, but it's far from clear that nontrivial and non-degenerate examples exist. David David Roberts Webpage: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/David+Roberts Blog: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
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David Roberts