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MacLane coherence theorem for "monoidal" category without 1

Sorry, I noticed this an hour after posting: Yes, it's true, see Theorem 3.1 in MacLane's excellent paper "Natural associativity and commutativity". It's a mystery to my why this is so scarcely menti …
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MacLane coherence theorem for "monoidal" category without 1

MacLane's coherence theorem for a monoidal category states that once the associators for 4-fold products are compatible (i.e., the pentagon axiom holds), it holds for n-fold products, so I can bracket …
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