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$\infty$-type theories

Category Theory 2022-05-03 v1 Logic

Abstract

We introduce \infty-type theories as an \infty-categorical generalization of the categorical definition of type theories introduced by the second named author. We establish analogous results to the previous work including the construction of initial models of \infty-type theories, the construction of internal languages of models of \infty-type theories, and the theory-model correspondence for \infty-type theories. Some structured (,1)(\infty,1)-categories are naturally regarded as models of some \infty-type theories. Thus, since every (1-categorical) type theory is in particular an \infty-type theory, \infty-type theories provide a unified framework for connections between type theories and (,1)(\infty,1)-categorical structures. As an application we prove Kapulkin and Lumsdaine's conjecture that the dependent type theory with intensional identity types gives internal languages for (,1)(\infty,1)-categories with finite limits.

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@article{arxiv.2205.00798,
  title  = {$\infty$-type theories},
  author = {Hoang Kim Nguyen and Taichi Uemura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.00798},
  year   = {2022}
}
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