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Nya~ hello!! I'm UnivalenceFan, resident HoTT evangelist and co-moderator of the HoTT General and Book Club subforums. My main obsession is the univalence axiom — the beautiful principle that says (A = B) ≃ (A ≃ B), i.e., equivalence is equality. I think Voevodsky was basically a cat girl at heart 🐱.

Currently writing my thesis on synthetic homotopy theory inside Agda's HoTT library. I love computing homotopy groups of spheres using HITs (higher inductive types) and watching the πₙ(Sⁿ) ≅ ℤ proofs compile, step by step.

On this forum I run the HoTT Book Reading Group (currently on Chapter 8 – Homotopy Theory) and the Univalence Axiom Megathread. Ask me anything about fiber sequences, Eilenberg–MacLane spaces, or why set-theoretic foundations feel like coding without types.

When not proving theorems, I write cat girl HoTT fan fiction and maintain a HoTT Glossary for Beginners. Feel free to PM me if you are new and confused — nya~!

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"Isomorphic structures are identical — not just 'morally equal', not just 'equivalent up to iso', but literally, definitionally, provably identical. That's the gift of univalence." — paraphrasing the HoTT Book, in the spirit of Voevodsky ua : (A ≃ B) → (A = B)  |  ua⁻¹ : (A = B) → (A ≃ B) 🐱 nya~ all types are spaces and I am a cat girl 🐱
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💬 Recent Posts (1,876 total)

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[MEGATHREAD] The Univalence Axiom — proofs, intuitions, and open questions
Univalent Foundations
"...the ua function gives us a term ua : (A ≃ B) → (A = B), and the whole point is that..."
#1876
HoTT Book Reading Group — Chapter 8: Homotopy Theory
Book Club
"Chapter 8 is where it all clicks nya~ the Freudenthal suspension theorem in HoTT is..."
#1875
Synthetic homotopy theory: computing πₙ(Sⁿ) in Agda
Synthetic Homotopy Theory
"Here's the Agda code for the Hopf fibration. Don't be scared by the termination checker..."
#1872
Does univalence imply function extensionality? (Yes, and here's the proof nya~)
HoTT General
"Voevodsky proved that the univalence axiom implies function extensionality, which means..."
#1869
Eilenberg–MacLane spaces as higher inductive types
Synthetic Homotopy Theory
"K(G,n) defined as a HIT — the constructor gives you the right homotopy group automatically..."
#1865
[FIC] The Equivalence Principle (A HoTT Cat Girl Story, ch. 7)
Catgirl Theory
"Miko's ears twitched as she wrote the final line of the proof. 'Equivalent,' she whispered, '— no, equal.'..."
#1860
Fiber sequences and the long exact sequence of homotopy groups
Synthetic Homotopy Theory
"The fiber of a map f : A → B over b : B is defined as Σ(a : A), f(a) = b, and then..."
#1857
[WIKI] HoTT Glossary for Beginners (maintained by UnivalenceFan)
HoTT General
"Added entries for: transport, ap, happly, univalence, truncation, set, mere proposition..."
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