UniMath/agda-unimath

Idempotents in Intensional Type Theory

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Goals

Overarching goal: formalize the positive results from Idempotents in Intensional Type Theory.

  • Infrastructure for the total type of retracts of a type
  • Infrastructure for sequential limits #839
  • The splitting type of a split idempotent map is essentially unique
  • Split idempotents are quasiidempotent
  • Preidempotents on sets split
  • Weakly constant preidempotents split
  • Quasiidempotents split
  • Split idempotents are a retract of quasiidempotents
  • The type of (fully coherent) idempotents as the splitting type of the above retract
  • Write paper summary file
  • Include explanations regarding the negative results, although this issue does not aim to have them formalized.

References

  • Michael Shulman, Idempotents in Intensional Type Theory, arXiv:1507.03634
  • Michael Shulman, Splitting Idempotents, HoTT blog post
  • Nicolai Kraus and Martín Escardó and Thierry Coquand and Thorsten Altenkirch, Notions of Anonymous Existence in Martin-Löf Type Theory, arXiv:1610.03346