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Kleisli biadjunction is symmetric lax monoidal

Prove that, for a linear exponential pseudocomonad on a symmetric Gray monoid K with Kleisli bicategory K^{oc}, the Kleisli biadjunction K ⊣ J between K^{oc} and K becomes a symmetric lax monoidal adjunction when K is equipped with the tensor product ⊗ and K^{oc} with the cartesian product ×. Equivalently, show that the left biadjoint K is symmetric strong monoidal by establishing that the Seely equivalences are pseudonatural with respect to Kleisli maps.

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Background

The authors construct Seely equivalences and analyze monoidal structure in the presence of linear exponential pseudocomonads. They conjecture that this structure extends to the Kleisli biadjunction, yielding a symmetric lax monoidal adjunction between the Kleisli bicategory and the base 2-category.

Establishing this would align the monoidal structure on non-linear maps (Kleisli morphisms) with the linear structure, and would systematize the interaction between the Seely equivalences and Kleisli composition, advancing the bicategorical semantics of linear logic.

References

We conjecture that the Kleisli biadjunction in~equ:cokleisliadjunction becomes a symmetric lax monoidal adjunction when $K$ is considered as a symmetric Gray monoid with respect to $\otimes$, and ${K}$ is considered as a symmetric monoidal bicategory with respect to $\times$, as in \begin{equation*} \begin{tikzcd}column sep = large \ar[r, shift left =1, bend left =10, "K"] \ar[r, description, phantom, "\scriptstyle \bot"] & (K, \otimes, I) \mathrlap{.} \ar[l, shift left = 1, bend left =10, "J"] \end{tikzcd} \end{equation*} As yet we have not fully verified the pseudonaturality conditions.

Monoidal bicategories, differential linear logic, and analytic functors (2405.05774 - Fiore et al., 9 May 2024) in Remark thm:mellies-2-cell, Section 5 (Products and the Seely equivalences)