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Homotopy theoretic models of identity types

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

STEVE AWODEY  and
MICHAEL A. WARREN
STEVE AWODEY
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A. e-mail: awodey@andrew.cmu.edu, mwarren@andrew.cmu.edu
MICHAEL A. WARREN
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A. e-mail: awodey@andrew.cmu.edu, mwarren@andrew.cmu.edu
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Quillen [17] introduced model categories as an abstract framework for homotopy theory which would apply to a wide range of mathematical settings. By all accounts this program has been a success and—as, e.g., the work of Voevodsky on the homotopy theory of schemes [15] or the work of Joyal [11, 12] and Lurie [13] on quasicategories seem to indicate—it will likely continue to facilitate mathematical advances. In this paper we present a novel connection between model categories and mathematical logic, inspired by the groupoid model of (intensional) Martin–Löf type theory [14] due to Hofmann and Streicher [9]. In particular, we show that a form of Martin–Löf type theory can be soundly modelled in any model category. This result indicates moreover that any model category has an associated “internal language” which is itself a form of Martin-Löf type theory. This suggests applications both to type theory and to homotopy theory. Because Martin–Löf type theory is, in one form or another, the theoretical basis for many of the computer proof assistants currently in use, such as Coq and Agda (cf. [3] and [5]), this promise of applications is of a practical, as well as theoretical, nature.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 146 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 45 - 55
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2008

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