nLab
bicomodule

Let C,D be comonoids in a monoidal category A=(A,,1). A C-D bicomodule is an object M in A, with left C-coaction λ C:MCM and right D-coaction ρ D:MMD which commute in the sense that

(λ Cid D)ρ D=(id Cρ D)λ C.(\lambda_C\otimes id_D)\circ\rho_D = (id_C\otimes \rho_D)\circ \lambda_C.

Typical cases are when A is the category of k-modules where k is a commutative unital ring (the comonoids are then k-coalgebras), and the more general case of bicomodules over corings, where A is the category of k-bimodules where k is a possibly noncommutative ring.

There is an operation of cotensor product for bicomodules over coalgebras/corings; however it is not associative in general, unlike the tensor product of bimodules over rings!

Revised on October 11, 2011 01:26:20 by Todd Trimble (69.118.58.208)