type-theory/src/2023-05-06-equiv.lagda.md

---
title: "Equivalences"
slug: "equivalences"
date: 2023-05-06
tags:
- type-theory
- agda
- hott
math: true
draft: true
---

<details>
  <summary>Imports</summary>

```
{-# OPTIONS --cubical #-}

open import Agda.Primitive.Cubical
open import Cubical.Foundations.Equiv
open import Cubical.Foundations.Prelude
open import Data.Bool
```

</details>

```
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
```

Blocked on this issue: https://git.mzhang.io/school/cubical/issues/1

```
    eqv4′ = ?
    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
  ```

Blocked on this issue: https://git.mzhang.io/school/cubical/issues/2
  ```
  ?
```

## Other Equivalences

There are 2 other ways we can define equivalences:

TODO: Talk about them being equivalent to each other