Free Higher Groups in Homotopy Type Theory

DOI10.1145/3209108.3209183zbMATH Open1453.03003arXiv1805.02069OpenAlexW3106463532MaRDI QIDQ5145336FDOQ5145336

Nicolai Kraus, Thorsten Altenkirch

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: Given a type A in homotopy type theory (HoTT), we can define the free infinity-group on A as the loop space of the suspension of A+1. Equivalently, this free higher group can be defined as a higher inductive type F(A) with constructors unit : F(A), cons : A -> F(A) -> F(A), and conditions saying that every cons(a) is an auto-equivalence on F(A). Assuming that A is a set (i.e. satisfies the principle of unique identity proofs), we are interested in the question whether F(A) is a set as well, which is very much related to an open problem in the HoTT book. We show an approximation to the question, namely that the fundamental groups of F(A) are trivial, i.e. that the 1-truncation of F(A) is a set.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02069

zbMATH Keywords

homotopy-type theorytruncation levelshigher algebraic structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract and axiomatic homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55U35) Type theory (03B38)

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