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arxiv: 1406.2064 · v1 · pith:LUQXKERCnew · submitted 2014-06-09 · 💻 cs.LO · cs.PL· math.CT

Coherence for Skew-Monoidal Categories

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I motivate a variation (due to K. Szlach\'{a}nyi) of monoidal categories called skew-monoidal categories where the unital and associativity laws are not required to be isomorphisms, only natural transformations. Coherence has to be formulated differently than in the well-known monoidal case. In my (to my knowledge new) version, it becomes a statement of uniqueness of normalizing rewrites. I present a proof of this coherence theorem and also formalize it fully in the dependently typed programming language Agda.

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