A symmetric monoidal Comparison Lemma

Abstract: In this note we study symmetric monoidal functors from a symmetric monoidal 1-category to a cartesian symmetric monoidal $\infty$-category, which are in addition hypersheaves for a certain topology. We prove a symmetric monoidal version of the Comparison Lemma, for lax as well as strong symmetric monoidal hypersheaves. For a strong symmetric monoidal functor between symmetric monoidal 1-categories with topologies generated by suitable cd-structures, we show that if the conditions of the Comparison Lemma are satisfied, then there is also an equivalence between categories of lax and strong symmetric monoidal hypersheaves respectively, taking values in a complete cartesian symmetric monoidal $\infty$-category. As an application of this result, we prove a lax symmetric monoidal version of our previous result about hypersheaves that encode compactly supported cohomology theories.