Existence of an univalent path category of infinity-types over the effective topos

A path category with homotopy Π\Pi-types is a category equipped with the path-category structure and dependent products needed to interpret homotopy type theory. A fibration is called discrete when it belongs to the proposed class of discrete fibrations, and a class of small fibrations is impredicative when it is closed under the relevant impredicative constructions; a univalent representation is a representing fibration satisfying the univalence condition. The EFF\mathbb{EFF}_\infty conjecture. There should exist a path category with homotopy Π\Pi-types EFF\mathbb{EFF}_\infty in which the class of small discrete fibrations is impredicative and has a univalent representation. These discrete fibrations should be definable using an internal orthogonality condition, and propositional resizing should hold for them. This is proposed as the limiting member of a hierarchy extending the path categories EFFn\mathbb{EFF}_n, with each EFFn\mathbb{EFF}_n expected to arise as the path category of nn-types in EFF\mathbb{EFF}_\infty. The existence and the asserted properties of this path category are directions for future research rather than results established in the paper.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Benno van den Berg, “Univalent polymorphism”, arXiv:1803.10113 (2018).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.