2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/66981The centre of a monoidal category is a braided monoidal category. Monoidal categories are monoidal objects (or pseudomonoids) in the monoidal bicategory of categories. This paper provides a universal construction in a braided monoidal bicategory that produces a braided monoidal object from any monoidal object. Some properties and sufficient conditions for existence of the construction are examined.6 pages, pdf file of MacWrite documentCategory Theory18D10; 18D05text