Univalence for inverse diagrams and homotopy canonicity

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DOI10.1017/S0960129514000565zbMATH Open1362.03008arXiv1203.3253WikidataQ59757174 ScholiaQ59757174MaRDI QIDQ5740656FDOQ5740656

Michael Shulman

Publication date: 27 July 2016

Published in: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a homotopical version of the relational and gluing models of type theory, and generalize it to inverse diagrams and oplax limits. Our method uses the Reedy homotopy theory on inverse diagrams, and relies on the fact that Reedy fibrant diagrams correspond to contexts of a certain shape in type theory. This has two main applications. First, by considering inverse diagrams in Voevodsky's univalent model in simplicial sets, we obtain new models of univalence in a number of (infinity,1)-toposes; this answers a question raised at the Oberwolfach workshop on homotopical type theory. Second, by gluing the syntactic category of univalent type theory along its global sections functor to groupoids, we obtain a partial answer to Voevodsky's homotopy-canonicity conjecture: in 1-truncated type theory with one univalent universe of sets, any closed term of natural number type is homotopic to a numeral.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3253




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