Monoidal functor

Here the unqualified term allows lax comparison maps $F_2:FX\otimes FY\to F(X\otimes Y)$ and $F_0:I\to FI$, natural and compatible with associators and unitors. Invertible comparison maps give a strong monoidal functor. The opposite direction gives an opmonoidal functor.

A lax monoidal functor $\phi$ and opmonoidal functor $\psi$ on the same underlying functor, satisfying ${\psi }_{A\otimes B,C}{\phi }_{A,B\otimes C}=({\phi }_{A,B}\otimes 1)(1\otimes {\psi }_{B,C})$ and ${\psi }_{A,B\otimes C}{\phi }_{A\otimes B,C}=(1\otimes {\phi }_{B,C})({\psi }_{A,B}\otimes 1)$ in coherent notation. It transports dual pairs in a monoidal category and Frobenius monoids.

A monoidal functor whose tensor and unit comparison maps are isomorphisms.

A strong monoidal functor whose comparison maps are identities. It preserves the tensor, unit and structural constraints exactly; its source need not be a strict monoidal category.