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Formalizing category theory in Agda
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Formalizing category theory in Agda

Abstract

The generality and pervasiveness of category theory in modern mathematics makes it a frequent and useful target of formalization. It is however quite challenging to formalize, for a variety of reasons. Agda currently (i.e. in 2020) does not have a standard, working formalization of category theory. We document our work on solving this dilemma. The formalization revealed a number of potential design choices, and we present, motivate and explain …

Authors

Hu JZS; Carette J

Journal

, , , pp. 327–342

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publication Date

January 17, 2021

DOI

10.1145/3437992.3439922