+++ title = "Equivalences" slug = "equivalences" date = 2023-05-06 tags = ["type-theory", "agda", "hott"] math = true draft = true +++
Imports ``` {-# OPTIONS --cubical #-} open import Agda.Primitive.Cubical open import Cubical.Foundations.Equiv open import Cubical.Foundations.Prelude open import Data.Bool ```
``` Bool-id : Bool → Bool Bool-id true = true Bool-id false = false unap : {A B : Type} {x y : A} (f : A → B) → f x ≡ f y → x ≡ y unap p i = ? -- Need to convert point-wise equality into universally quantified equality? Bool-id-refl : (x : Bool) → (Bool-id x ≡ x) Bool-id-refl true = refl Bool-id-refl false = refl ``` The equivalence proof below involves the contractibility-of-fibers definition of an equivalence. There are others, but the "default" one used by the Cubical standard library uses this. ``` Bool-id-is-equiv : isEquiv Bool-id ``` In the contractibility-of-fibers proof, we must first establish our fibers. If we had $(f : A \rightarrow B)$, then this is saying given any $(y : B)$, we must provide: - an $(x : A)$ that would have gotten mapped to $y$ (preimage), and - a proof that $f\ x \equiv y$ These are the two elements of the pair given below. Since our function is `id`, we can just give $y$ again, and use the `refl` function above for the equality proof ``` Bool-id-is-equiv .equiv-proof y .fst = y , Bool-id-refl y ``` The next step is to prove that it's contractible. Using the same derivation for $y$ as above, this involves taking in another fiber $y_1$, and proving that it's equivalent the fiber we've just defined above. To prove fiber equality, we can just do point-wise equality over both the preimage of $y$, and then the second-level equality of the proof of $f\ x \equiv y$. In the first case here, we need to provide something that equals our $x$ above when $i = i0$, and something that equals the fiber $y_1$'s preimage $x_1$ when $i = i1$, aka $y \equiv proj_1\ y_1$. ``` Bool-id-is-equiv .equiv-proof y .snd y₁ i .fst = let eqv = snd y₁ -- eqv : Bool-id (fst y₁) ≡ y eqv2 = eqv ∙ sym (Bool-id-refl y) -- eqv2 : Bool-id (fst y₁) ≡ Bool-id y -- Ok, unap doesn't actually exist unless f is known to have an inverse. -- Fortunately, because we're proving an equivalence, we know that f has an -- inverse, in particular going from y to x, which in thise case is also y. eqv3 = unap Bool-id eqv2 Bool-id-inv : Bool → Bool Bool-id-inv b = (((Bool-id-is-equiv .equiv-proof) b) .fst) .fst eqv3′ = cong Bool-id-inv eqv2 give-me-info = ? -- eqv3 : fst y₁ ≡ y eqv4 = sym eqv3 -- eqv4 : y ≡ fst y₁ in eqv4 i ``` Now we can prove that the path is the same \begin{CD} A @> > > B \\\ @VVV @VVV \\\ C @> > > D \end{CD} - $A \rightarrow B$ is the path of the original fiber that we've specified, which is $f\ x \equiv y$ - $C \rightarrow D$ is the path of the other fiber that we're proving, which is $proj_2\ y_1$ So what we want now is `a-b ≡ c-d` ``` Bool-id-is-equiv .equiv-proof y .snd y₁ i .snd j = let a-b = Bool-id-refl y c-d = y₁ .snd in ? ```