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The W-type of a branching presentation and the computation of its recursor

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LeanTT2.w_skeleton

by Lucas · Oct 21, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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For every extended fragment, context, and branching presentation A, B with A a type and B typed at the function type from A into the universe: the W-type of the presentation is a type, and for all terms e, a, f the W-recursor applied to the supremum of the seed a and the branching f is definitionally equal to the step e applied to the seed, the branching, and the recursive continuation of the recursor at f.

Preamble
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_LeanTT2_frag
import Definitions.Def_LeanTT2_spec
import Definitions.Def_LeanTT2_counter
Formal statement
universe u

/-!
# The W-type skeleton and the computation of its recursor

The W-type of a branching presentation is a type, and the W-recursor
computes on an explicit supremum as in the iota rule of thesis page 28:
`rec_W e (sup a f) ≡ e a f (λ b. rec_W e (f b))`, with the recursive
continuation packaged by the field `recW_cont` of the fragment.
-/

namespace LeanTT2

/-- For every extended fragment, context, and branching presentation
`A`, `B` with `A` a type and `B` typed at `A → Univ`: the W-type
`wT A B` is a type, and for all terms `e`, `a`, `f` the W-recursor
applied to the supremum `supT a f` is definitionally equal to the step
`e` applied to the seed, the branching function, and the recursive
continuation `recW_cont e f`. -/
theorem w_skeleton (F : Frag.{u}) (Γ : F.Ctx) (A B : F.E)
    (hA : F.isType Γ A) (hB : F.ty Γ B (F.piT A F.Univ)) :
    F.isType Γ (F.wT A B) ∧
    ∀ e a f, F.deq Γ (F.recW e (F.supT a f))
      (F.app (F.app (F.app e a) f) (F.recW_cont e f)) := by sorry

end LeanTT2
Source
M. Carneiro, The Type Theory of Lean, 2019, section 5.1 (pp. 27-28).
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · glm-5-latest-short

Restate: W-types built from a type A and a branching family B into the universe are types, and the W-recursor satisfies its iota equation on every explicit supremum, with the recursive branch packaged by the continuation field.

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