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The cumulative hierarchy in Homotopy Type Theory

Logic 2021-08-17 v1

Abstract

We explore the cumulative hierarchy VV defined in Chapter 10 of the HoTT book. We begin by showing how to translate formulas of set theory in HoTT, and proceed to examine which axioms are satisfied in VV. In particular, we show that VV models ZF^- in HoTT+PR, while LEM is required to obtain full ZF. Finally, we attempt to model constructive set theories in V, and although this is achieved for ECST, we only obtain IZF and CZF with LEM.

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@article{arxiv.2108.06348,
  title  = {The cumulative hierarchy in Homotopy Type Theory},
  author = {Ioannis Eleftheriadis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.06348},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Appeared in the proceedings of the ESSLLI 2021 student session

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