FLOC 2018: FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE 2018
Cellular Cohomology in Homotopy Type Theory

Authors: Kuen-Bang Hou and Ulrik Buchholtz

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Title:Cellular Cohomology in Homotopy Type Theory
Authors:Kuen-Bang Hou and Ulrik Buchholtz
Proceedings:LICS PDF files
Editors: Anuj Dawar and Erich Grädel
Keywords:homotopy type theory, cellular cohomology, mechanized reasoning
Abstract:

ABSTRACT. We present a development of cellular cohomology in homotopy type theory. Cohomology associates to each space a sequence of abelian groups capturing part of its structure, and has the advantage over homotopy groups in that these abelian groups of many common spaces are easier to compute in many cases. Cellular cohomology is a special kind of cohomology designed for cell complexes: these are built in stages by attaching spheres of progressively higher dimension, and cellular cohomology defines the groups out of the combinatorial description of how spheres are attached. Our main result is that for finite cell complexes, a wide class of cohomology theories (including the ones defined through Eilenberg-MacLane spaces) can be calculated via cellular cohomology. This result was almost completely formalized in the Agda proof assistant, and the only missing part is to put individual cases into one single theorem, which however seems to be too demanding for the current checker.

Pages:9
Talk:Jul 09 11:20 (Session 47E)
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