| Title:
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A type theory for synthetic $\infty$-categories (English) |
| Author:
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Riehl, Emily |
| Author:
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Shulman, Michael |
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English |
| Journal:
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Higher Structures |
| ISSN:
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2209-0606 |
| Volume:
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1 |
| Issue:
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1 |
| Year:
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2017 |
| Pages:
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147-224 |
| Summary lang:
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English |
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| Category:
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math |
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| Summary:
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We propose foundations for a synthetic theory of $(\infty,1)$-categories within homotopy type theory. We axiomatize a directed interval type, then define higher simplices from it and use them to probe the internal categorical structures of arbitrary types. We define {\it Segal types}, in which binary composites exist uniquely up to homotopy; this automatically ensures composition is coherently associative and unital at all dimensions. We define {\it Rezk types}, in which the categorical isomorphisms are additionally equivalent to the type-theoretic identities — a “local univalence” condition. And we define {\it covariant fibrations}, which are type families varying functorially over a Segal type, and prove a “dependent Yoneda lemma” that can be viewed as a directed form of the usual elimination rule for identity types. We conclude by studying homotopically correct adjunctions between Segal types, and showing that for a functor between Rezk types to have an adjoint is a mere proposition. To make the bookkeeping in such proofs manageable, we use a three-layered type theory with shapes, whose contexts are extended by polytopes within directed cubes, which can be abstracted over using “extension types” that generalize the path-types of cubical type theory. In an appendix, we describe the motivating semantics in the Reedy model structure on bisimplicial sets, in which our Segal and Rezk types correspond to Segal spaces and complete Segal spaces. (English) |
| Keyword:
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homotopy type theory |
| Keyword:
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$\infty$-categories |
| Keyword:
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Segal spaces |
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Rezk spaces |
| MSC:
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03G30 |
| MSC:
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18G55 |
| MSC:
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55U40 |
| idZBL:
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Zbl 1437.18016 |
| idMR:
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MR3912054 |
| DOI:
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10.21136/HS.2017.06 |
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| Date available:
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2026-03-10T13:23:51Z |
| Last updated:
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2026-03-10 |
| Stable URL:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/153397 |
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