Data structures for quasistrict higher categories

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Authors Krzysztof Bar, Jamie Vicary

Publication date 19 January 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06908, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3330082

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Tricategories, weak (n)-categories, coherence, semi-strictification (18N20) Data structures (68P05)

Abstract: We present new data structures for quasistrict higher categories, in which associativity and unit laws hold strictly. Our approach has low axiomatic complexity compared to traditional algebraic definitions of higher categories, and we use it to give a practical definition of quasistrict 4-category. It is also amenable to computer implementation, and we exploit this to give a new machine-verified algebraic proof that every adjunction of 1-cells in a quasistrict 4-category can be promoted to a coherent adjunction satisfying the butterfly equations.

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