Left cancellable maps. The definition is given in UF-Base. Here we prove things about them. \begin{code} {-# OPTIONS --without-K --exact-split --safe #-} module UF-LeftCancellable where open import SpartanMLTT open import UF-Base open import UF-Subsingletons open import UF-Retracts open import UF-Equiv left-cancellable-reflects-is-prop : {X : π€ Μ } {Y : π₯ Μ } (f : X β Y) β left-cancellable f β is-prop Y β is-prop X left-cancellable-reflects-is-prop f lc i x x' = lc (i (f x) (f x')) section-lc : {X : π€ Μ } {A : π₯ Μ } (s : X β A) β is-section s β left-cancellable s section-lc {π€} {π₯} {X} {Y} s (r , rs) {x} {y} p = (rs x)β»ΒΉ β ap r p β rs y is-equiv-lc : {X : π€ Μ } {Y : π₯ Μ } (f : X β Y) β is-equiv f β left-cancellable f is-equiv-lc f (_ , hasr) = section-lc f hasr left-cancellable-closed-under-β : {X : π€ Μ } {Y : π₯ Μ } {Z : π¦ Μ } (f : X β Y) (g : Y β Z) β left-cancellable f β left-cancellable g β left-cancellable (g β f) left-cancellable-closed-under-β f g lcf lcg = lcf β lcg NatΞ£-lc : {X : π€ Μ } {A : X β π₯ Μ } {B : X β π¦ Μ } (f : Nat A B) β ((x : X) β left-cancellable(f x)) β left-cancellable (NatΞ£ f) NatΞ£-lc {π€} {π₯} {π¦} {X} {A} {B} f flc {x , a} {x' , a'} p = to-Ξ£-β‘ (ap prβ p , Ξ³) where Ξ³ : transport A (ap prβ p) a β‘ a' Ξ³ = flc x' (f x' (transport A (ap prβ p) a) β‘β¨ nat-transport f (ap prβ p) β© transport B (ap prβ p) (f x a) β‘β¨ from-Ξ£-β‘' p β© f x' a' β) NatΞ -lc : {X : π€ Μ } {A : X β π₯ Μ } {B : X β π¦ Μ } (f : Nat A B) β ((x : X) β left-cancellable(f x)) β {g g' : Ξ A} β NatΞ f g β‘ NatΞ f g' β g βΌ g' NatΞ -lc f flc {g} {g'} p x = flc x (happly p x) \end{code} Sometimes the type of left cancellable maps is useful (but more often the type of embeddings, defined elsewhere, is useful). \begin{code} _β£_ : π€ Μ β π₯ Μ β π€ β π₯ Μ X β£ Y = Ξ£ f κ (X β Y) , left-cancellable f β_β : {X : π€ Μ } {Y : π₯ Μ } β X β£ Y β X β Y β f , _ β = f infix 0 _β£_ \end{code}