Tarski's least fixed point theorem: A predicative type theoretic formulation
Abstract
We provide a type theoretic treatment of the paper "On Tarski's fixed point theorem" by Giovanni Curi. There are benefits to having a type theoretic formulation apart from routine implementation in a proof assistant. By taking advantage of (higher) inductive types, we can avoid complicated set theoretic constructions. Arguably, this results in a presentation that is conceptually clearer. Additionally, due the predicative admissibility of (higher) inductive types we take a step towards the "system independent" derivation that Curi calls for in his conclusion. Finally, we explore a condition on monotone maps that guarantees they are `generated' and give an alternative statement of the least fixed point theorem in terms of this condition.
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@article{arxiv.2401.00841,
title = {Tarski's least fixed point theorem: A predicative type theoretic formulation},
author = {Ian Ray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.00841},
year = {2024}
}
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17 pages