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Re: [Coq-Club] [Agda] Re: [HoTT] newbie questions about homotopy theory & advantage of UF/Coq


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  • From: Altenkirch Thorsten <psztxa AT exmail.nottingham.ac.uk>
  • To: Maxime Dénès <mail AT maximedenes.fr>, Abhishek Anand <abhishek.anand.iitg AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: coq-club Club <coq-club AT inria.fr>, "agda AT lists.chalmers.se" <agda AT lists.chalmers.se>
  • Subject: Re: [Coq-Club] [Agda] Re: [HoTT] newbie questions about homotopy theory & advantage of UF/Coq
  • Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:28:55 +0000
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On 07/01/2014 00:50, "Maxime Dénès"
<mail AT maximedenes.fr>
wrote:

>Well, my example does not typecheck with the --without-K flag.
>
>However, the same thing can be proven in Coq without K, so I am not sure
>if it is because the flag is too restrictive or because Agda's pattern
>matching is different.

Very good. Agda is right and Coq got it wrong. As I said previosuly the
definition of loop implicitely uses K.

T.

>
>I am also not sure how specific the problem is to univalence. As Cody
>said, I would expect to find some set-theoretical models where the
>equality holds. So being able to prove the negation is disturbing.
>
>Maxime.
>
>On 01/06/2014 07:23 PM, Abhishek Anand wrote:
>> It is known that UIP is inconsistent with univalence.
>> Does this typecheck even after disabling UIP(==K axiom?) ?
>> I might be wrong, but I think that UIP is baked into the typechecker
>> of Agda.
>> But, UIP can be disabled somehow?
>>
>>
>> -- Abhishek
>> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~aa755/ <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/%7Eaa755/>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Maxime Dénès
>> <mail AT maximedenes.fr
>> <mailto:mail AT maximedenes.fr>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Bingo, Agda seems to have the same problem:
>>
>> module Termination where
>>
>> open import Relation.Binary.Core
>>
>> data Empty : Set where
>>
>> data Box : Set where
>> wrap : (Empty → Box) → Box
>>
>> postulate
>> iso : (Empty → Box) ≡ Box
>>
>> loop : Box -> Empty
>> loop (wrap x) rewrite iso = loop x
>>
>> gift : Empty → Box
>> gift ()
>>
>> bug : Empty
>> bug = loop (wrap gift)
>>
>> However, I may be missing something due to my ignorance of Agda.
>> It may be well known that the axiom I introduced is inconsistent.
>> Forgive me if it is the case.
>>
>> Maxime.
>>
>>
>> On 01/06/2014 01:15 PM, Maxime Dénès wrote:
>>
>> The anti-extensionality bug is indeed related to termination.
>> More precisely, it is the subterm relation used by the guard
>> checker which is not defined quite the right way on dependent
>> pattern matching.
>>
>> It is not too hard to fix (we have a patch), but doing so
>> without ruling out any interesting legitimate example (dealing
>> with recursion on dependently typed data structures) is more
>> challenging.
>>
>> I am also curious as to whether Agda is impacted. Let's try it
>>:)
>>
>> Maxime.
>>
>> On 01/06/2014 12:59 PM, Altenkirch Thorsten wrote:
>>
>> Which bug was this?
>>
>> I only saw the one which allowed you to prove
>> anti-extensionality? But
>> this wasn't related to termination, or?
>>
>> Thorsten
>>
>> On 06/01/2014 16:54, "Cody Roux"
>> <cody.roux AT andrew.cmu.edu
>>
>> <mailto:cody.roux AT andrew.cmu.edu>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Nice summary!
>>
>>
>> On 01/06/2014 08:49 AM, Altenkirch Thorsten wrote:
>>
>> Agda enforces termination via a termination
>> checker which is more
>> flexible but I think less principled than Coq's
>> approach.
>>
>> That's a bit scary given that there was an
>> inconsistency found in
>> the Coq termination checker just a couple of weeks ago
>>:)
>>
>> BTW, has anyone tried reproducing the bug in Agda?
>>
>>
>> Cody
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