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Cubical type theory provides a constructive justification to certain aspects of homotopy type theory such as Voevodsky's univalence axiom. This makes many extensionality principles, like function and propositional extensionality, directly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Thierry Coquand , Simon Huber , Anders Mörtberg

We will give a detailed account of why the simplicial sets model of the univalence axiom due to Voevodsky also models W-types. In addition, we will discuss W-types in categories of simplicial presheaves and an application to models of set…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Benno van den Berg , Ieke Moerdijk

In introductions to the subject for a general audience of mathematicians or logicians, the univalence axiom is typically explained by handwaving. This gives rise to several misconceptions, which cannot be properly addressed in the absence…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Martín Hötzel Escardó

In this text we expose basic cases of some fundamental ideas and methods of topology. Namely, of homotopy, degree, fundamental group, covering, Whitehead invariant, etc. This is done by considering the elementary example: closed polygonal…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-05-07 E. Alkin , O. Nikitenko , A. Skopenkov

In a series of lectures given in 2003 soon after receiving the Fields Medal for his results in the Algebraic Geometry Vladimir Voevodsky (1966-2017) identifies two strategic goals for mathematics, which he plans to pursue in his further…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Andrei Rodin

Vladimir Voevodsky was born in 1966. He studied at Moscow State University and Harvard university. He is now Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Among his main achievements are the following: he defined and developed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christophe Soulé

This paper presents a type theory in which it is possible to directly manipulate $n$-dimensional cubes (points, lines, squares, cubes, etc.) based on an interpretation of dependent type theory in a cubical set model. This enables new ways…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Cyril Cohen , Thierry Coquand , Simon Huber , Anders Mörtberg

We discuss how canonical and universal constructions, properties and characterizations interact with equality in the framework of Homotopy Type Theory, comparing it with Grothendieck's use of equality and shedding further light on…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Thomas Eckl

In this note we interpret Voevodsky's Univalence Axiom in the language of (abstract) model categories. We then show that any posetal locally Cartesian closed model category $Qt$ in which the mapping $Hom^{(w)}(Z\times B,C):Qt\longrightarrow…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-16 Misha Gavrilovich , Assaf Hasson , Itay Kaplan

Motivic homotopy theory is meant to play the role of algebraic topology, in particular homotopy theory, in the context of algebraic geometry. As proved by Oliver Rondigs and Paul Arne Ostvaer, this theory is closely connected to Voevodsky's…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Ahmad Rouintan

It is a well-known theorem of homotopy type theory, originally due to Voevodsky, that function extensionality holds inside any univalent universe. We consider a weaker variant of the univalence axiom, asserting that the wild category formed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Evan Cavallo , Jonas Höfer

The manuscript is an overview of the motivations and foundations lying behind Voevodsky's ideas of constructing categories similar to the ordinary topological homotopy categories. The objects of these categories are strictly related to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-26 Simone Borghesi

Homotopy type theory is a modern foundation for mathematics that introduces the univalence axiom and is particularly suitable for the study of homotopical mathematics and its formalization via proof assistants. In order to better comprehend…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Nima Rasekh

In this note we show that Voevodsky's univalence axiom holds in the model of type theory based on symmetric cubical sets. We will also discuss Swan's construction of the identity type in this variation of cubical sets. This proves that we…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Marc Bezem , Thierry Coquand , Simon Huber

We introduce Voevodsky's univalent foundations and univalent mathematics, and explain how to develop them with the computer system Agda, which is based on Martin-L\"of type theory. Agda allows us to write mathematical definitions,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Martín Hötzel Escardó

The intended model of the homotopy type theories used in Univalent Foundations is the infinity-category of homotopy types, also known as infinity-groupoids. The problem of higher structures is that of constructing the homotopy types needed…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Ulrik Buchholtz

A typoid is a type equipped with an equivalence relation, such that the terms of equivalence between the terms of the type satisfy certain conditions, with respect to a given equivalence relation between them, that generalise the properties…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Iosif Petrakis

In this paper we study a model structure on a category of schemes with a group action and the resulting unstable and stable equivariant motivic homotopy theories. The new model structure introduced here samples a comparison to the one by…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Philip Herrmann

We present a set of principles and methodologies which may serve as foundations of a unifying theory of Mathematics. These principles are based on a new view of Grothendieck toposes as unifying spaces being able to act as `bridges' for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Olivia Caramello

We develop category theory within Univalent Foundations, which is a foundational system for mathematics based on a homotopical interpretation of dependent type theory. In this system, we propose a definition of "category" for which equality…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Benedikt Ahrens , Chris Kapulkin , Michael Shulman