Impredicative encodings of (higher) inductive types

DOI10.1145/3209108.3209130zbMATH Open1452.03030arXiv1802.02820OpenAlexW2963511234MaRDI QIDQ5145279FDOQ5145279

Authors: Jonas Frey, Sam Speight, Steve Awodey 

Publication date: 20 January 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Postulating an impredicative universe in dependent type theory allows System F style encodings of finitary inductive types, but these fail to satisfy the relevant {eta}-equalities and consequently do not admit dependent eliminators. To recover {eta} and dependent elimination, we present a method to construct refinements of these impredicative encodings, using ideas from homotopy type theory. We then extend our method to construct impredicative encodings of some higher inductive types, such as 1-truncation and the unit circle S1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02820

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zbMATH Keywords

homotopy type theorysystem Finductive typesimpredicativityhigher inductive typesMartin-Löf type theoryimpredicative encodings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopical algebra, Quillen model categories, derivators (18N40) Abstract and axiomatic homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55U35) Type theory (03B38)

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