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A seminar on HoTT Equivalences
I recorded our local Seminar on foundations in which I talked about the notion of equivalence in HoTT:
Hopefully some people will find some use for it. It is pretty slowly going, and it might motivate some of the strange things going on in Equivalences.v.
5 Responses to A seminar on HoTT Equivalences
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Mike Shulman says:
It’s surprisingly hard to prove that is_equiv and is_adjoint_equiv are equivalent! I end up fooling around with lots of transport along funexts and needing new lemmas about transporting in iterated total spaces, and I’ve never been sufficiently motivated to make it work.
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Mike Shulman says:
Well, I finally managed to prove this. I was going about it too directly — turns out it’s easier to massage them both step-by-step through a series of basic equivalences until they come out the same. See this file.
I also finally proved (same file) that the other possible definition, called is_hiso in Equivalences.v, is equivalent to is_equiv. That one is significantly easier. Of course, both proofs use function extensionality.
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Mike Shulman says:
Well, since is_equiv is a prop and we have maps in both directions, their being equivalent is equivalent to is_adjoint_equiv being a prop. That doesn’t seem to be any easier to prove in Coq, but homotopical and higher-categorical intuition says that it’s true.
For instance, we could consider the theory of “marked simplicial sets” in section 3.1 of Higher Topos Theory, which are simplicial sets equipped with a subclass of “marked” 1-simplices denoting “equivalences” (thus a higher-categorical version of “categories with weak equivalences”). Any quasicategory has an underlying marked simplicial set in which all the equivalences are marked, and any simplicial set gives rise to a marked one in which all edges are marked.
Let denote the 1-simplex, and let denote a simplicial set such that maps consist exactly of the data corresponding to is_adjoint_equiv. Thus has two 0-simplices and , two 1-simplices and , 2-simplices and , and one 3-simplex exhibiting one triangle identity between and . Then the induced inclusion is “marked anodyne” ( can be obtained from by gluing on two horns). Since the fibrant marked simplicial sets are just the objects for a quasicategory, this implies that the induced map of simplicial sets is a trivial fibration. Hence, any equivalence in a quasicategory has a contractible space of extensions to adjoint equivalence data (the corresponding fiber of this map).
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