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\chapter{Cubical Agda}
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\section{Propositional equality}
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In Agda judgmental equality is a feature of the type-system. It's a property of
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types that can be checked by computational means. In the example from the
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introduction $n + 0$ can be judged to be equal to $n$ simply by expanding the
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definition of $+$.
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Propositional equality on the other hand is defined within the language itself.
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Cubical Agda extends the underlying type system (\TODO{Cite someone smarter than
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me with a good resource on this}) but introduces a data-type within the
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languages.
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\subsection{The equality type}
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The usual notion of judgmental equality says that given a type $A \tp \MCU$ and
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two points of $A$; $a_0, a_1 \tp A$ we can form the type:
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\begin{align}
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a_0 \equiv a_1 \tp \MCU
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\end{align}
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In Agda this is defined as an inductive data-type with the single constructor:
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\begin{align}
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\refl \tp a \equiv a
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\end{align}
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For any $a \tp A$.
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There also exist a related notion of \emph{heterogeneous} equality where allows
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for equating points of different types. In this case given two types $A, B \tp
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\MCU$ and two points $a \tp A$, $b \tp B$ we can construct the type:
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\begin{align}
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a \cong b \tp \MCU
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\end{align}
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This is likewise defined as an inductive data-type with a single constructors:
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\begin{align}
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\refl \tp a \cong a
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\end{align}
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In Cubical Agda these two notions are paralleled with homogeneous- and
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heterogeneous paths respectively.
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\subsection{The path type}
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In Cubical Agda judgmental equality is encapsulated with the type:
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\Path \tp (P : I → \MCU) → P\ 0 → P\ 1 → \MCU
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$$
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$I$ is a special data-type (\TODO{that also has special computational properties
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AFAIK}) called the index set. $I$ can be thought of simply as the interval on
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the real numbers from $0$ to $1$. $P$ is a family of types over the index set
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$I$. I will sometimes refer to $P$ as the ``path-space'' of some path $p \tp
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\Path\ P\ a\ b$. By this token $P\ 0$ then corresponds to the type at the
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left-endpoint and $P\ 1$ as the type at the right-endpoint. The type is called
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$\Path$ because it is connected with paths in homotopy thoery. The intuition
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behind this is that $\Path$ describes paths in $\MCU$ -- i.e. between types. For
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a path $p$ for the point $p\ i$ the index $i$ describes how far along the path
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one has moved. An inhabitant of $\Path\ P\ a_0\ a_1$ is a (dependent-)
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function, $p$, from the index-space to the path-space:
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p \tp I \to P\ i
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$$
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Which must satisfy being judgmentally equal to $a_0$ (respectively $a_1$) at the
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endpoints. I.e.:
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\begin{align*}
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p\ 0 & = a_0 \\
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p\ 1 & = a_1
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\end{align}
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The notion of ``homogeneous equalities'' can be recovered by not letting the
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path-space $P$ depend on it's argument:
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a_0 \equiv a_1 \defeq \Path\ (\lambda i \to A)\ a_0\ a_1
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$$
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For $A \tp \MCU$, $a_0, a_1 \tp A$. I will generally prefer to use the notation
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$a_0 \equiv a_1$ when talking about non-dependent paths and use the notation
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$\Path\ (\lambda i \to A)\ a_0\ a_1$ when the path-space is of particular
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interest.
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With this definition we can also recover reflexivity. That is, for any $A \tp
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\MCU$ and $a \tp A$:
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\begin{align}
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\refl & \tp \Path (\lambda i \to A)\ a\ a \\
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\refl & \defeq \lambda i \to a
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\end{align}
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Or, in other terms; reflexivity is the path in $A$ that is $a$ at the left
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endpoint as well as at the right endpoint. It is inhabited by the path which
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stays constantly at $a$ at any index $i$.
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Paths have some other important properties, but they are not the focus of this
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thesis. \TODO{Refer the reader somewhere for more info.}
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\section{Homotopy levels}
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In ITT all equality proofs are identical (in a closed context). This means that,
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in some sense, any two inhabitants of $a \equiv b$ are ``equally good'' -- they
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don't have any interesting structure. This is referred to as uniqueness of
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identity proofs. Unfortunately this is orthogonal to univalence that only makes
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sense in the absence of UIP.
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In homotopy type theory we have a hierarchy of types based on their ``internal
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structure''. At the bottom of this hierarchy we have the set of contractible
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types:
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\begin{equation}
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\begin{alignat}{2}
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& \isContr && \tp \MCU \to \MCU \\
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& \isContr\ A && \defeq \sum_{c \tp A} \prod_{a \tp A} a \equiv c
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\end{alignedat}
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\end{equation}
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The first component of $\isContr\ A$ is called ``the center of contraction''.
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Under the propositions-as-types interpretation of type-theory $\isContr\ A$ can
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be thought of as ``the true proposition $A$''. It is a theorem that if a type is
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contractible, then it is isomorphic to the unit-type $\top$.
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The next step in the hierarchy is the set of mere propositions:
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\begin{equation}
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\begin{alignat}{2}
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& \isProp && \tp \MCU \to \MCU \\
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& \isProp\ A && \defeq \prod_{a_0, a_1 \tp A} a_0 \equiv a_1
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\end{alignedat}
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\end{equation}
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$\isProp\ A$ can be thought of as the set of true and false propositions. It is
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a result that if a mere proposition $A$ is inhabited, then so is it
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contractible. If it is not inhabited it is equivalent to the empty-type (or
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false proposition).\TODO{Cite!!}
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I will refer to a type $A \tp \MCU$ as a \emph{mere} proposition if I want to
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stress that we have $\isProp\ A$.
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Then comes the set of homotopical sets:
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\begin{equation}
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\begin{alignat}{2}
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& \isSet && \tp \MCU \to \MCU \\
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& \isSet\ A && \defeq \prod_{a_0, a_1 \tp A} \isProp\ (a_0 \equiv a_1)
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\end{alignedat}
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\end{equation}
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At this point it should be noted that the term ``set'' is somewhat conflated;
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there is the notion of sets from set-theory, in Agda types are denoted
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\texttt{Set}. I will use it consistently to refer to a type $A$ as a set exactly
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if $\isSet\ A$ is inhabited.
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The next step in the hierarchy is, as you might've guessed, the type:
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\begin{equation}
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\begin{alignat}{2}
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& \isGroupoid && \tp \MCU \to \MCU \\
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& \isGroupoid\ A && \defeq \prod_{a_0, a_1 \tp A} \isSet\ (a_0 \equiv a_1)
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\end{alignedat}
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\end{equation}
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And so it continues. In fact we can generalize this family of types by indexing
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them with a natural number. For historical reasons, though, the bottom of the
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hierarchy, the contractible tyes, is said to be a \nomen{-2-type}, propositions
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are \nomen{-1-types}, (homotopical) sets are \nomen{0-types} and so on\ldots
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Just as with paths, homotopical sets are not at the center of focus for this
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thesis. But I mention here some properties that will be relevant for this
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exposition:
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Proposition: Homotopy levels are cumulative. That is, if $A \tp \MCU$ has
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homotopy level $n$ then so does it have $n + 1$.
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Let $\left\Vert A \right\Vert = n$ denote that the level of $A$ is $n$.
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Proposition: For any homotopic level $n$ this is a mere proposition.
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\section{A few lemmas}
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Rather than getting into the nitty-gritty details of Agda I venture to take a
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more ``combinators-based'' approach. That is, I will use theorems about paths
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already that have already been formalized. Specifically the results come from
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the Agda library \texttt{cubical} (\TODO{Cite}). I have used a handful of
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results from this library as well as contributed a few lemmas myself.\footnote{The module \texttt{Cat.Prelude} lists the upstream dependencies. As well my contribution to \texttt{cubical} can be found in the git logs \TODO{Cite}.}
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These theorems are all purely related to homotopy theory and cubical agda and as
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such not specific to the formalization of Category Theory. I will present a few
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of these theorems here, as they will be used later in chapter
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\ref{ch:implementation} throughout.
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\subsection{Path induction}
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The induction principle for paths intuitively gives us a way to reason about a
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type-family indexed by a path by only considering if said path is $\refl$ (the
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``base-case''). For \emph{based path induction}, that equaility is \emph{based}
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at some element $a \tp A$.
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Let a type $A \tp \MCU$ and an element of the type $a \tp A$ be given. $a$ is said to be the base of the induction. Given a family of types:
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P \tp \prod_{a' \tp A} \prod_{p \tp a ≡ a'} \MCU
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$$
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And an inhabitant of $P$ at $\refl$:
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p \tp P\ a\ \refl
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$$
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We have the function:
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\pathJ\ P\ p \tp \prod_{a' \tp A} \prod_{p \tp a ≡ a'} P\ a\ p
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$$
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\subsection{Paths over propositions}
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Another very useful combinator is $\lemPropF$:
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To `promote' this to a dependent path we can use another useful combinator;
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$\lemPropF$. Given a type $A \tp \MCU$ and a type family on $A$; $P \tp A \to
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\MCU$. Let $\var{propP} \tp \prod_{x \tp A} \isProp\ (P\ x)$ be the proof that
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$P$ is a mere proposition for all elements of $A$. Furthermore say we have a
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path between some two elements in $A$; $p \tp a_0 \equiv a_1$ then we can built
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a heterogeneous path between any two elements of $p_0 \tp P\ a_0$ and $p_1 \tp
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P\ a_1$:
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\lemPropF\ \var{propP}\ p \defeq \Path\ (\lambda\; i \mto P\ (p\ i))\ p_0\ p_1
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$$
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This is quite a mouthful. So let me try to show how this is a very general and
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useful result.
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Often when proving equalities between elements of some dependent types
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$\lemPropF$ can be used to boil this complexity down to showing that the
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dependent parts of the type are mere propositions. For instance, saw we have a type:
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T \defeq \sum_{a : A} P\ a
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$$
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For some proposition $P \tp A \to \MCU$. If we want to prove $t_0 \equiv t_1$
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for two elements $t_0, t_1 \tp T$ then this will be a pair of paths:
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\begin{align*}
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p \tp & \fst\ t_0 \equiv \fst\ t_1 \\
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& \Path\ (\lambda i \to P\ (p\ i))\ \snd\ t_0 \equiv \snd\ t_1
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\end{align*}
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Here $\lemPropF$ directly allow us to prove the latter of these:
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$$
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\lemPropF\ \var{propP}\ p
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\tp \Path\ (\lambda i \to P\ (p\ i))\ \snd\ t_0 \equiv \snd\ t_1
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$$
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\subsection{Functions over propositions}
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$\prod$-types preserve propositionality when the co-domain is always a
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proposition.
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$$
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\mathit{propPi} \tp \left(\prod_{a \tp A} \isProp\ (P\ a)\right) \to \isProp\ \left(\prod_{a \tp A} P\ a\right)
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$$
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\subsection{Pairs over propositions}
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$\sum$-types preserve propositionality whenever it's first component is a
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proposition, and it's second component is a proposition for all points of in the
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left type.
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$$
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\mathit{propSig} \tp \isProp\ A \to \left(\prod_{a \tp A} \isProp\ (P\ a)\right) \to \isProp\ \left(\sum_{a \tp A} P\ a\right)
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$$
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