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Seely's paper "Locally cartesian closed categories and type theory" contains a well-known result in categorical type theory: that the category of locally cartesian closed categories is equivalent to the category of Martin-L\"of type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Pierre Clairambault , Peter Dybjer

Brouwer's constructivist foundations of mathematics is based on an intuitively meaningful notion of computation shared by all mathematicians. Martin-L\"of's meaning explanations for constructive type theory define the concept of a type in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Carlo Angiuli , Robert Harper , Todd Wilson

This thesis introduces the idea of two-level type theory, an extension of Martin-L\"of type theory that adds a notion of strict equality as an internal primitive. A type theory with a strict equality alongside the more conventional form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Paolo Capriotti

Recent models of intensional type theory have been constructed in algebraic weak factorization systems (AWFSs). AWFSs give rise to comprehension categories that feature non-trivial morphisms between types; these morphisms are not used in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Niyousha Najmaei , Niels van der Weide , Benedikt Ahrens , Paige Randall North

We develop semantics and syntax for bicategorical type theory. Bicategorical type theory features contexts, types, terms, and directed reductions between terms. This type theory is naturally interpreted in a class of structured…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Benedikt Ahrens , Paige Randall North , Niels van der Weide

We present an extension of Martin-L\"of Type Theory that contains a tiny object; a type for which there is a right adjoint to the formation of function types as well as the expected left adjoint. We demonstrate the practicality of this type…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Mitchell Riley

We give a semantics for the lambda-calculus based on a topological duality theorem in nominal sets. A novel interpretation of lambda is given in terms of adjoints, and lambda-terms are interpreted absolutely as sets (no valuation is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Murdoch J. Gabbay , Michael J. Gabbay

We show that once-extended anomalous 3-dimensional topological quantum field theories valued in the 2-category of k-linear categories are in canonical bijection with modular tensor categories equipped with a square root of the global…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Bruce Bartlett , Christopher L. Douglas , Christopher J. Schommer-Pries , Jamie Vicary

We formulate and solve a class of two-dimensional matrix gauge models describing ensembles of non-folding surfaces covering an oriented, discretized, two-dimensional manifold. We interpret the models as string theories characterized by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Ivan K. Kostov , Matthias Staudacher

Polymorphic variants are a useful feature of the OCaml language whose current definition and implementation rely on kinding constraints to simulate a subtyping relation via unification. This yields an awkward formalization and results in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Giuseppe Castagna , Tommaso Petrucciani , Kim Nguyen

We reformulate recent advances in directed type theory--a type theory where the types have the structure of synthetic (higher) categories--as a logical calculus with multiple context 'zones', following the example of Pfenning and Davies.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jacob Neumann

A type theory is presented that combines (intuitionistic) linear types with type dependency, thus properly generalising both intuitionistic dependent type theory and full linear logic. A syntax and complete categorical semantics are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Matthijs Vákár

We provide a complete generators and relations presentation of the 2-dimensional extended unoriented and oriented bordism bicategories as symmetric monoidal bicategories. Thereby we classify these types of 2-dimensional extended topological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Christopher J. Schommer-Pries

This article tackles categorical coherence within a two-dimensional generalization of Lawvere's functorial semantics. 2-theories, a syntactical way of describing categories with structure, are presented. From the perspective here afforded,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Noson S. Yanofsky

The field of directed type theory seeks to design type theories capable of reasoning synthetically about (higher) categories, by generalizing the symmetric identity types of Martin-L\"of Type Theory to asymmetric hom-types. We articulate…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Thorsten Altenkirch , Jacob Neumann

In this paper we define intensional models for the classical theory of types, thus arriving at an intensional type logic ITL. Intensional models generalize Henkin's general models and have a natural definition. As a class they do not…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Reinhard Muskens

This is the second in a series of papers extending Martin-L\"{o}f's meaning explanation of dependent type theory to account for higher-dimensional types. We build on the cubical realizability framework for simple types developed in Part I,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Carlo Angiuli , Robert Harper

We show that any multiple-valued function can be represented by a linear lambda term typed in a second-order polymorphic type system, using two distinct styles. The first is a circuit style, which mimics combinational circuits in switching…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Satoshi Matsuoka

The theory of Topological Modular Forms suggests the existence of deformation invariants for two-dimensional supersymmetric field theories that are more refined than the standard elliptic genus. In this note we give a physical definition of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-12 Davide Gaiotto , Theo Johnson-Freyd

Martin-L\"of's Intuitionistic Theory of Types is becoming popular for formal reasoning about computer programs. To handle recursion schemes other than primitive recursion, a theory of well-founded relations is presented. Using primitive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Lawrence C. Paulson