Lax Functors, Cospans, and the Center Construction
Abstract
The center construction is not (classically) functorial. In this note, we specialize a universal construction of Jacob Lurie to the category of rings and upgrade the classical center to a lax functor. In particular, we find lax functors to the Morita category and the category of cospans.
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