nLab pentagon identity

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Monoidal categories

monoidal categories

With braiding

With duals for objects

With duals for morphisms

With traces

Closed structure

Special sorts of products

Semisimplicity

Morphisms

Internal monoids

Examples

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In higher category theory

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The pentagon identity is the coherence identity satisfied by an associator in a monoidal category or more generally in a bicategory, (2,1)-category etc, asserting that the following pentagonal diagram commutes, where

a x,y,z:(xy)zx(yz) a_{x,y,z} \;\colon\; (x \otimes y) \otimes z \longrightarrow x \otimes (y \otimes z)

is the associator natural transformation (or more generally: associator 2-morphism).

References

For more references see at braided monoidal category and at coherence law.

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