Category Archives: Models
A new class of models for the univalence axiom
First of all, in case anyone missed it, Chris Kapulkin recently wrote a guest post at the n-category cafe summarizing the current state of the art regarding “homotopy type theory as the internal language of higher categories”. I’ve just posted … Continue reading
Universal Properties of Truncations
Some days ago at the HoTT/UF workshop in Warsaw (which was a great event!), I have talked about functions out of truncations. I have focussed on the propositional truncation , and I want to write this blog post in case … Continue reading
Homotopy Type Theory should eat itself (but so far, it’s too big to swallow)
The title of this post is an homage to a well-known paper by James Chapman called Type theory should eat itself. I also considered titling the post How I spent my Christmas vacation trying to construct semisimplicial types in a … Continue reading
Cohomology
For people interested in doing homotopy theory in homotopy type theory, Chapter 8 of the HoTT Book is a pretty good record of a lot of what was accomplished during the IAS year. However, there are a few things it’s … Continue reading
A Simpler Proof that π₁(S¹) is Z
Last year, Mike Shulman proved that π₁(S¹) is Z in Homotopy Type Theory. While trying to understand Mike’s proof, I came up with a simplification that shortens the proof a bunch (100 lines of Agda as compared to 380 lines … Continue reading
Modeling Univalence in Inverse Diagrams
I have just posted the following preprint, which presents new set-theoretic models of univalence in categories of simplicial diagrams over inverse categories (or, more generally, diagrams over inverse categories starting from any existing model of univalence). The univalence axiom for … Continue reading
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