Back to Search Start Over

Univalent categories and the Rezk completion

Authors :
Michael Shulman
Benedikt Ahrens
Chris Kapulkin
Source :
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science. 25:1010-1039
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015.

Abstract

We develop category theory within Univalent Foundations, which is a foundational system for mathematics based on a homotopical interpretation of dependent type theory. In this system, we propose a definition of "category" for which equality and equivalence of categories agree. Such categories satisfy a version of the Univalence Axiom, saying that the type of isomorphisms between any two objects is equivalent to the identity type between these objects; we call them "saturated" or "univalent" categories. Moreover, we show that any category is weakly equivalent to a univalent one in a universal way. In homotopical and higher-categorical semantics, this construction corresponds to a truncated version of the Rezk completion for Segal spaces, and also to the stack completion of a prestack.<br />Comment: 27 pages, ancillary files contain formalized proofs in the proof assistant Coq; v2: version for publication in Math. Struct. in Comp. Sci., incorporating suggestions by referees and Voevodsky

Details

ISSN :
14698072 and 09601295
Volume :
25
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....032de08582585f9808be168cbf939dbf
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960129514000486