This article represents a preliminary attempt to link Kan extensions, and some of their further developments, to Fourier theory and quantum algebra through *-autonomous monoidal categories and related structures. There is a close resemblance to convolution products and the Wiener algebra (of transforms) in functional analysis. The analysis term ``kernel'' (of a distribution) has also been adapted below in connection with certain special types of ``distributors'' (in the terminology of J. Benabou) or ``modules'' (in the terminology of R. Street) in category theory. In using the term ``graphic'', in a very broad sense, we are clearly distinguishing the categorical methods employed in this article from standard Fourier and wavelet mathematics. The term ``graphic'' also applies to promultiplicative graphs, and related concepts, which can feature prominently in the theory.
Keywords: monoidal category, promonoidal category, convolution, Fourier transform
@article{TAC_2011_25_a4,
author = {Brian J. Day},
title = {Monoidal functor categories and graphic {Fourier} transforms},
journal = {Theory and applications of categories},
pages = {118--141},
year = {2011},
volume = {25},
language = {en},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/TAC_2011_25_a4/}
}
Brian J. Day. Monoidal functor categories and graphic Fourier transforms. Theory and applications of categories, Tome 25 (2011), pp. 118-141. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/TAC_2011_25_a4/