The category of necklaces is Reedy monoidal
Violeta Borges Marques, Arne Mertens
Abstract
In the first part of this note we further the study of the interactions between Reedy and monoidal structures on a small category, building upon the work of Barwick. We define a Reedy monoidal category as a Reedy category $\mathcal{R}$ which is monoidal such that for all symmetric monoidal model categories $\textbf{A}$, the category $\mathrm{Fun}\left(\mathcal{R}^{\mathrm{op}}, \textbf{A}\right)_{\mathrm{Reedy}}$ is model monoidal when equipped with the Day convolution. In the second part, we study the category $\mathcal{N}ec$ of necklaces, as defined by Baues and Dugger-Spivak. Making use of the combinatorial description present in arXiv:2302.02484v1, we streamline some proofs from the literature, and finally show that $\mathcal{N}ec$ is simple Reedy monoidal.
