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We develop the rewriting theory for monoidal supercategories and 2-supercategories. This extends the theory of higher-dimensional rewriting established for (linear) 2-categories to the super setting, providing a suite of tools for constructing bases and normal forms for 2-supercategories given by generators and relations. We then employ this newly developed theory to prove the non-degeneracy conjecture for the odd categorification of quantum sl(2) from arXiv:1307.7816 and arXiv:1701.04133. As a corollary, this gives a classification of dg-structures on the odd 2-category conjectured in arXiv:1808.04924.
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