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Mathlib.Tactic.CategoryTheory.Coherence

A coherence tactic for monoidal categories #

We provide a coherence tactic, which proves equations where the two sides differ by replacing strings of monoidal structural morphisms with other such strings. (The replacements are always equalities by the monoidal coherence theorem.)

A simpler version of this tactic is pure_coherence, which proves that any two morphisms (with the same source and target) in a monoidal category which are built out of associators and unitors are equal.

class Mathlib.Tactic.Coherence.LiftObj {C : Type u} (X : C) :

A typeclass carrying a choice of lift of an object from C to FreeMonoidalCategory C. It must be the case that projectObj id (LiftObj.lift x) = x by defeq.

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    A typeclass carrying a choice of lift of a morphism from C to FreeMonoidalCategory C. It must be the case that projectMap id _ _ (LiftHom.lift f) = f by defeq.

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      Helper function for throwing exceptions.

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        Helper function for throwing exceptions with respect to the main goal.

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          Coherence tactic for monoidal categories.

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            If set to false, the warning on the use of the deprecated coherence tactic is disabled.

            pure_coherence uses the coherence theorem for monoidal categories to prove the goal. It can prove any equality made up only of associators, unitors, and identities.

            example {C : Type} [Category* C] [MonoidalCategory C] :
              (λ_ (𝟙_ C)).hom = (ρ_ (𝟙_ C)).hom := by
              pure_coherence
            

            Users will typically just use the coherence tactic, which can also cope with identities of the form a ≫ f ≫ b ≫ g ≫ c = a' ≫ f ≫ b' ≫ g ≫ c' where a = a', b = b', and c = c' can be proved using pure_coherence

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              The same as pure_coherence, but used internally in coherence without the warning.

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                Auxiliary simp lemma for the coherence tactic: this moves brackets to the left in order to expose a maximal prefix built out of unitors and associators.

                Internal tactic used in coherence.

                Rewrites an equation f = g as f₀ ≫ f₁ = g₀ ≫ g₁, where f₀ and g₀ are maximal prefixes of f and g (possibly after reassociating) which are "liftable" (i.e. expressible as compositions of unitors and associators).

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                  If either the lhs or rhs is not a composition, compose it on the right with an identity.

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                    The main part of coherence tactic.

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                      Simp lemmas for rewriting a hom in monoidal categories into a normal form.

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                        Use the coherence theorem for monoidal categories to solve equations in a monoidal equation, where the two sides only differ by replacing strings of monoidal structural morphisms (that is, associators, unitors, and identities) with different strings of structural morphisms with the same source and target.

                        That is, coherence can handle goals of the form a ≫ f ≫ b ≫ g ≫ c = a' ≫ f ≫ b' ≫ g ≫ c' where a = a', b = b', and c = c' can be proved using pure_coherence.

                        (If you have very large equations on which coherence is unexpectedly failing, you may need to increase the typeclass search depth, using e.g. set_option synthInstance.maxSize 500.)

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