This paper introduces a new family of models of intensional Martin-L "of type theory. We use constructive ordered algebra in toposes. Identity types in the models are given by a notion of Moore path. By considering a particular gros topos, we show that there is such a model that is non-truncated, i.e. contains non-trivial structure at all dimensions. In other words, in this model a type in a nested sequence of identity types can contain more than one element, no matter how great the degree of nesting. Although inspired by existing non-truncated models of type theory based on simplicial and on cubical sets, the notion of model presented here is notable for avoiding any form of Kan filling condition in the semantics of types.
The PhD thesis of North @cite_4 uses a category-theoretic abstraction of the notion of Moore paths, called , as part of a complete analysis of when a weak factorization system gives a model (in terms of display map categories, rather than CwFs) of identity- , @math - and @math -types. A Moore relation system is a piece of category theory comparable to our use of ordered abelian groups in categorical logic in ; it would be interesting to see if it can be extended in the way we extended from groups to rings in in order to validate function extensionality.
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This article presents three characterizations of the weak factorization systems on finitely complete categories that interpret intensional dependent type theory with Sigma-, Pi-, and Id-types. The first characterization is that the weak factorization system (L,R) has the properties that L is stable under pullback along R and that all maps to a terminal object are in R. We call such weak factorization systems type-theoretic. The second is that the weak factorization system has an Id-presentation: roughly, it is generated by Id-types in the empty context. The third is that the weak factorization system (L, R) is generated by a Moore relation system, a generalization of the notion of Moore paths. In this paper we construct new categorical models for the identity types of Martin-Lof type theory, in the categories Top of topological spaces and SSet of simplicial sets. We do so building on earlier work of Awodey and Warren [2009], which has suggested that a suitable environment for the interpretation of identity types should be a category equipped with a weak factorization system in the sense of Bousfield--Quillen. It turns out that this is not quite enough for a sound model, due to some subtle coherence issues concerned with stability under substitution; and so our first task is to introduce a slightly richer structure, which we call a homotopy-theoretic model of identity types, and to prove that this is sufficient for a sound interpretation. Now, although both Top and SSet are categories endowed with a weak factorization system---and indeed, an entire Quillen model structure---exhibiting the additional structure required for a homotopy-theoretic model is quite hard to do. However, the categories we are interested in share a number of common features, and abstracting these leads us to introduce the notion of a path object category. This is a relatively simple axiomatic framework, which is nonetheless sufficiently strong to allow the construction of homotopy-theoretic models. Now by exhibiting suitable path object structures on Top and SSet, we endow those categories with the structure of a homotopy-theoretic model and, in this way, obtain the desired topological and simplicial models of identity types. A category N of labeled (oriented) trivalent graphs (nets) or ribbon graphs is extended by new generators called fusing, braiding, twist and switch with relations which can be called Moore-Seiberg relations. A functor to N is constructed from the category Surf of oriented surfaces with labeled boundary and their homeomorphisms. Given a (eventually non-semisimple) k-linear abelian ribbon braided category @math with some finiteness conditions we construct a functor from a central extension of N with the set of labels @math ObC to k-vector spaces. Composing the functors we get a modular functor from a central extension of Surfto k-vector spaces. There are many category-theoretic notions of algebraic theory, including Lawvere theories, monads, PROPs and operads. The first central notion of this thesis is a common generalisation of these, which we call a proto-theory. In order to define models of a proto-theory in a category, we need a way of relating the arities of the proto-theory with the objects of the category. This leads to our second central notion, that of an interpretation of arities, or aritation for short. We show that every aritation gives rise to a semantics functor sending proto-theories to models. In fact this functor always has an adjoint, giving a structure-semantics adjunction. Furthermore, we show that the semantics of proto-theories generalises the classical semantics of many existing notions of algebraic theory. Another aim of this thesis is to find a convenient category of monads in the following sense. Every right adjoint gives rise to a monad on its codomain, and more generally so does any functor that admits a codensity monad. However, not all functors have codensity monads. This means that the semantics functor for monads on a category, viewed as a functor into the category of all functors into the base category, does not have a left adjoint. We seek a generalisation of monads with a semantics functor that does have a left adjoint. This can be accomplished with proto-theories, but at a cost. The classical semantics functor for monads is full and faithful; this is a kind of completeness theorem, and is highly desirable in a notion of algebraic theory. However, the semantics functor for general proto-theories is not full and faithful. Thus we seek a generalisation of monads and their semantics for which the semantics functor is both full and faithful and has a left adjoint. We show that such a generalisation is given, for suitable base categories, by a certain kind of topological proto-theory.