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Modal descent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2020

Felix Cherubini*
Affiliation:
Softwareschneiderei GmbH
Egbert Rijke
Affiliation:
University of Ljubljana
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*Corresponding author. Email: felix.cherubini@posteo.de
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Any modality in homotopy type theory gives rise to an orthogonal factorization system of which the left class is stable under pullbacks. We show that there is a second orthogonal factorization system associated with any modality, of which the left class is the class of ○-equivalences and the right class is the class of ○-étale maps. This factorization system is called the modal reflective factorization system of a modality, and we give a precise characterization of the orthogonal factorization systems that arise as the modal reflective factorization system of a modality. In the special case of the n-truncation, the modal reflective factorization system has a simple description: we show that the n-étale maps are the maps that are right orthogonal to the map $${\rm{1}} \to {\rm{ }}{{\rm{S}}^{n + 1}}$$. We use the ○-étale maps to prove a modal descent theorem: a map with modal fibers into ○X is the same thing as a ○-étale map into a type X. We conclude with an application to real-cohesive homotopy type theory and remark how ○-étale maps relate to the formally etale maps from algebraic geometry.

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