The biequivalence of locally Cartesian closed categories and Martin-Löf type theories

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Abstract: Seely's paper "Locally cartesian closed categories and type theory" contains a well-known result in categorical type theory: that the category of locally cartesian closed categories is equivalent to the category of Martin-L"of type theories with Pi-types, Sigma-types and extensional identity types. However, Seely's proof relies on the problematic assumption that substitution in types can be interpreted by pullbacks. Here we prove a corrected version of Seely's theorem: that the B'enabou-Hofmann interpretation of Martin-L"of type theory in locally cartesian closed categories yields a biequivalence of 2-categories. To facilitate the technical development we employ categories with families as a substitute for syntactic Martin-L"of type theories. As a second result we prove that if we remove Pi-types the resulting categories with families are biequivalent to left exact categories.





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