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Benedikt Ahrens.
Initial Semantics aims at interpreting the syntax associated to a signature as the initial object of some category of 'models', yielding induction and recursion principles for abstract syntax. Zsid\'o proves an initiality result for simply-typed syntax: given a signature S, the abstract syntax […]
Published on April 6, 2012
Benedikt Ahrens ; Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine ; Vladimir Voevodsky.
In this paper, we analyze and compare three of the many algebraic structures that have been used for modeling dependent type theories: categories with families, split type-categories, and representable maps of presheaves. We study these in univalent type theory, where the comparisons between them […]
Published on September 11, 2018