Gray (skew) multicategories: double and Gray-categorical cases

Abstract

We construct in a unifying way skew-multicategories and multicategories of double and Gray-categories that we call Gray (skew) multicategories. We study their different versions depending on the types of functors and higher transforms. We construct Gray type products by generators and relations and prove that Gray skew-multicategories are closed and representable on one side, and that the Gray multicaticategories taken with the strict type of functors are representable. We conclude that the categories of double and Gray-categories with strict functors underlying Gray (skew) multicategories are skew monoidal, respectively monoidal, depending on the type of the inner-hom and product considered. The described Gray (skew) multicategories we see as prototypes of general Gray (skew) multicategories, which correspond to (higher) categories of higher dimensional internal and enriched categories.