Mac Lane's coherence theorem
GPTKB entity
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| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:mathematical_concept
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| gptkbp:concerns |
monoidal categories
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| gptkbp:field |
gptkb:category_theory
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Mac Lane's coherence theorem
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| gptkbp:implies |
any two ways of parenthesizing a tensor product are isomorphic
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| gptkbp:importantFor |
foundational result in category theory
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| gptkbp:namedAfter |
gptkb:Saunders_Mac_Lane
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| gptkbp:publishedIn |
1950s
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| gptkbp:relatedTo |
gptkb:monoidal_functor
associativity coherence law |
| gptkbp:state |
all diagrams built from associativity and unit constraints in a monoidal category commute
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| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Saunders_Mac_Lane
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
5
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