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Mathlib.CategoryTheory.Bicategory.Strict

Strict bicategories #

A bicategory is called Strict if the left unitors, the right unitors, and the associators are isomorphisms given by equalities.

Implementation notes #

In the literature of category theory, a strict bicategory (usually called a strict 2-category) is often defined as a bicategory whose left unitors, right unitors, and associators are identities. We cannot use this definition directly here since the types of 2-morphisms depend on 1-morphisms. For this reason, we use eqToIso, which gives isomorphisms from equalities, instead of identities.

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class CategoryTheory.Bicategory.Strict (B : Type u) [CategoryTheory.Bicategory B] :
Prop

A bicategory is called Strict if the left unitors, the right unitors, and the associators are isomorphisms given by equalities.

Instances
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    instance CategoryTheory.StrictBicategory.category (B : Type u) [CategoryTheory.Bicategory B] [CategoryTheory.Bicategory.Strict B] :
    CategoryTheory.Category.{v, u} B

    Category structure on a strict bicategory

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    theorem CategoryTheory.Bicategory.whiskerLeft_eqToHom {B : Type u} [CategoryTheory.Bicategory B] {a : B} {b : B} {c : B} (f : a ⟶ b) {g : b ⟶ c} {h : b ⟶ c} (η : g = h) :
    CategoryTheory.Bicategory.whiskerLeft f (CategoryTheory.eqToHom η) = CategoryTheory.eqToHom (_ : CategoryTheory.CategoryStruct.comp f g = CategoryTheory.CategoryStruct.comp f h)
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    theorem CategoryTheory.Bicategory.eqToHom_whiskerRight {B : Type u} [CategoryTheory.Bicategory B] {a : B} {b : B} {c : B} {f : a ⟶ b} {g : a ⟶ b} (η : f = g) (h : b ⟶ c) :
    CategoryTheory.Bicategory.whiskerRight (CategoryTheory.eqToHom η) h = CategoryTheory.eqToHom (_ : CategoryTheory.CategoryStruct.comp f h = CategoryTheory.CategoryStruct.comp g h)