# mathlibdocumentation

tactic.transport

## The transport tactic

transport attempts to move an s : S α expression across an equivalence e : α ≃ β to solve a goal of the form S β, by building the new object field by field, taking each field of s and rewriting it along e using the equiv_rw tactic.

We try to ensure good definitional properties, so that, for example, when we transport a monoid α to a monoid β, the new multiplication is definitionally λ x y, e (e.symm a * e.symm b).

@[nolint]
meta def tactic.transport  :
expr

Given s : S α for some structure S depending on a type α, and an equivalence e : α ≃ β, try to produce an S β, by transporting data and axioms across e using equiv_rw.

Given a goal ⊢ S β for some type class S, and an equivalence e : α ≃ β. transport using e will look for a hypothesis s : S α, and attempt to close the goal by transporting s across the equivalence e.

example {α : Type} [ring α] {β : Type} (e : α ≃ β) : ring β :=
by transport using e.


You can specify the object to transport using transport s using e.

transport works by attempting to copy each of the operations and axiom fields of s, rewriting them using equiv_rw e and defining a new structure using these rewritten fields.

If it fails to fill in all the new fields, transport will produce new subgoals. It's probably best to think about which missing simp lemmas would have allowed transport to finish, rather than solving these goals by hand. (This may require looking at the implementation of tranport to understand its algorithm; there are several examples of "transport-by-hand" at the end of test/equiv_rw.lean, which transport is an abstraction of.)