We show that categories weakly enriched over symmetric monoidal categories can be strictified to categories enriched in permutative categories. This is a "many 0-cells" version of the strictification of bimonoidal categories to strict ones.
Keywords: Bimonoidal category, coherence
2000 MSC: Primary 19D23; Secondary 18D05
Theory and Applications of Categories,
Vol. 24, 2010,
No. 20, pp 564-579.
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