Constructive Proofs of Heterogeneous Equalities in Cubical Type Theory

摘要

This paper represents the very small part of the developed base library for homotopical prover based on Cubical Type Theory (CTT) announced in 2017. We demonstrate the usage of this library by showing how to build a constructive proof of heterogeneous equality, the simple and elegant formulation of the equality problem, that was impossible to achieve in pure Martin-L?f Type Theory (MLTT). The machinery used in this article unveils the internal aspect of path equalities and isomorphism, used e.g. for proving univalence axiom, that became possible only in CTT. As an example of complex proof that was impossible to construct in earlier theories we took isomorphism between Nat and Fix Maybe datatypes and built a constructive proof of equality between elements of these datatypes. This approach could be extended to any complex isomorphic data types.