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The Fullness Axiom and exact completion of homotopy categories

Category Theory 2020-12-18 v3 Logic

Abstract

We use a category-theoretic formulation of Aczel's Fullness Axiom from Constructive Set Theory to derive the local cartesian closure of an exact completion. As an application, we prove that such a formulation is valid in the homotopy category of any model category satisfying mild requirements, thus obtaining in particular the local cartesian closure of the exact completion of topological spaces and homotopy classes of maps. Under a type-theoretic reading, these results provide a general motivation for the local cartesian closure of the category of setoids. However, results and proofs are formulated solely in the language of categories, and no knowledge of type theory or constructive set theory is required on the reader's part.

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@article{arxiv.1808.09905,
  title  = {The Fullness Axiom and exact completion of homotopy categories},
  author = {Jacopo Emmenegger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09905},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v1: 14 pages. v2: 13 pages; minor changes to presentation. v3: final journal version, accepted for publication in Cah. Topol. G\'eom. Diff\'er. Cat\'eg