This commit adds truncated 2-quotients, groupoid quotients, Eilenberg MacLane spaces, chain complexes, the long exact sequence of homotopy groups, the Freudenthal Suspension Theorem, Whitehead's principle, and the computation of homotopy groups of almost all spheres which are known in HoTT.
quasireducible are also known as lazyreducible.
There is a lot of work to be done.
We still need to revise blast, and add a normalizer for type class
instances. This commit worksaround that by eagerly unfolding
quasireducible.
@avigad, @fpvandoorn, @rlewis1988, @dselsam
I changed how transitive instances are named.
The motivation is to avoid a naming collision problem found by Daniel.
Before this commit, we were getting an error on the following file
tests/lean/run/collision_bug.lean.
Now, transitive instances contain the prefix "_trans_".
It makes it clear this is an internal definition and it should not be used
by users.
This change also demonstrates (again) how the `rewrite` tactic is
fragile. The problem is that the matching procedure used by it has
very little support for solving matching constraints that involving type
class instances. Eventually, we will need to reimplement `rewrite`
using the new unification procedure used in blast.
In the meantime, the workaround is to use `krewrite` (as usual).
The motivation is to reduce the number of instances generated by ematching.
For example, given
inv_inv: forall a, (a⁻¹)⁻¹ = a
the new heuristic uses ((a⁻¹)⁻¹) as the pattern.
This matches the intuition that inv_inv should be used a simplification
rule.
The default pattern inference procedure would use (a⁻¹). This is bad
because it generates an infinite chain of instances whenever there is a
term (a⁻¹) in the proof state.
By using (a⁻¹), we get
(a⁻¹)⁻¹ = a
Now that we have (a⁻¹)⁻¹, we can match again and generate
((a⁻¹)⁻¹)⁻¹ = a⁻¹
and so on
Before this commit we were using overloading for concrete structures and
type classes for abstract ones.
This is the first of series of commits that implement this modification
I changed the definition of pow so that a^(succ n) reduces to a * a^n rather than a^n * a.
This has the nice effect that on nat and int, where multiplication is defined by recursion on the right,
a^1 reduces to a, and a^2 reduces to a * a.
The change was a pain in the neck, and in retrospect maybe not worth it, but oh, well.
